Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:37:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Sergei Barbarash <sgt@deltathree.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local printer produces empty pages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970819173420.13073A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708191711.UAA00254@zaraza.deltathree.com>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Sergei Barbarash wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to set up a local printer on a parallel port. I connected it, > configured the spooler, everything... But when I try to print anything, > the printer starts and just produces empty pages. I tried make the lpt0 > interrupt-driven and polled mode, I tried specifying various modes for > the parallel port in BIOS... nothing. > > Any ideas? > > -- Sergei You've read the excellent handbook chapter on printing? It really is good. It's hard to tell what might be wrong when you don't say what kind of a printer it is--a postscript printer, a non-postscript, an HP Laserjet, or whatever. It probably needs a filter of some kind...what can you tell us? Annelise
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