On 7 Aug, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Don Lewis wrote: >> Unless someone snuck it in while I wasn't looking, our ulpt >> implementation doesn't support reading data from the printer, so it's >> not possible to check the ink levels. I've had to boot Linux in order >> to do this. > > Hmm. Okay... Unfortunately, the straight printing didn't work, either. I > tried the "check the ink levels" trick only after my test page never printed. > I'm using CUPS, could this be a limitation of the ulpt driver? Should I be > using another device?
I use a laser printer for most of my printing, so I only use my Epson Photo 890 when I need to print color. I never bothered to set up print spooling for it, and just point ghostscript at it. One problem I ran into is that anything I attempt to print after a power-on gets turned into garbage that prints a few funky-looking characters at the top the page and then ejects the page unless I first run "escputil -n -u -r /dev/ulpt0", which seems to send a magic escape sequence to the printer that puts it in the proper mode. I haven't had a time to investigate further. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
