Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:40:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour... Message-ID: <20070710103550.F62940@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20070710125257.GA61945@dell1> References: <20070710125257.GA61945@dell1>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, William Bulley wrote: > I have an HP 1320 (only has USB and parallel support) hooked > to a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE box using a USB cable. > > I have configured /dev/ulpt0 into my /etc/printcap file. > > Everything works fine and I am happy with this setup except > for one odd behaviour. The last page of a multi-page print > job will "linger" - somewhere - while the green light on the > HP continues to blink -- as if data were being sent to it. If the print job is plain text, does it end in a formfeed? If not, the printer may wait for one, and eventually timeout and print the page. Depending on what processing you do to the source file, you may find utilities like /usr/ports/print/enscript useful. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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