If this is a postscript only printer, are you sending it a postscript
file or just characters to /dev/lp0? The fact that it says processing
suggests that it is receiving your data, but it can't understand what
you're sending it. Try cat'ing a real (short) postscript file to the
printer and see if that works. Just a thought.
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print.
> If I try to print anything (via "cat" as root, or with "lpr"),
> the device seems to receive data, because its display says
> so ("PROCESSING...WAITING..." and then "READY").
> But it still does not print.
> My Debian is 1.2 of the InfoMagic Dev.Resource-CD.
> I'm using apsfilter_4.9.1-10 (well, in fact I'm _not_using_ it so far).
> My printer is a NEC Silentwriter S60P-Printer. This is a
> Postscript-Printer, but an old one. It works fine under DOS (Win95),
> and it had been sucessful the RedHat-Linux-Computer of a friend.
> I do not use plip, I read the Printing-Howto and fiddled around with tunelp,
> it keeps saying things like:
>
> # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1
> # /dev/lp1 using polling
> # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s
> # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line
> # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 7
> # /dev/lp1 using IRQ 7
> # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s
> # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line
>
> with no positive effect on printing.
>
> I tried, if a kernel-version-upgrade would help, but nope:
> No printing with 2.0.27 nor 2.0.29.
> lp-support is a module in the kernel, kerneld starts it at boot time.
> # bash# dmesg | grep lp
> # lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
>
>
> Can someone help me? Are there any tools to debug my
> problem further than with tunelp?
> Like a kind of 'ping' for lp-devices?
>
> Thank you in advance
> Frank Barknecht
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