Thank you all for trying to answer my question. I think I have forgotten to say, that I am indeed "cat"-ing a postsript-file (not raw text or anything else, but I admit that I tried...) to the printer, but it does not work. Under DOS the command "copy junk.ps lpt1" prints every postscript-file without hassle. So it's seems not to be a hardware problem. If it's a "line-termination character problem", how can solve it?
I 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. Frank Barknecht ############################### mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################### -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .