On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:56, stanley jobson wrote: > > It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the > > printer is very very special.. > > > > What sort of printer is it? > > its a canon lbp 460 - ugly gdi printer :)
Hmm, well lots of printers these days are raster only.. I'd recommend buying an Epson since they are usually more functional than Canon in !Win32. > > You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY > > for the open. > > one can print using lpt0.ctl? - thx 4 the hint - i'll check this ... Well, I'm pretty sure you can. AFAIK the only difference is that lpt0.ctl ignores BUSY on open so lptcontrol can use it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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