On Fri, 21 May 2010, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
my new machine doesn't have a physical connector for a parallel printer
anymore, so I'm now connecting my Brother HL-1250 through the USB port.
The printer is recognized when it powers up:
ugen0.4: at usbus0
ulpt0: on
usbus0
ulpt0: using bi-directi
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:29:04 +0200
> Thomas Gellekum wrote:
>
>> echo "hallo" > /dev/ulpt0
>> [...]
>> Any ideas on how to debug this are welcome.
>
> Most of todays printers do NOT understand plain text, usually you need a
> driver which transforms whatever you want
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:04:59AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:29:04 +0200
> Thomas Gellekum wrote:
>
> > echo "hallo" > /dev/ulpt0
> > [...]
> > Any ideas on how to debug this are welcome.
>
> Most of todays printers do NOT understand plain text, usually you need a
On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:29:04 +0200
Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> echo "hallo" > /dev/ulpt0
> [...]
> Any ideas on how to debug this are welcome.
Most of todays printers do NOT understand plain text, usually you need a driver
which transforms whatever you want to print into
the language the printer u
Moin,
my new machine doesn't have a physical connector for a parallel printer
anymore, so I'm now connecting my Brother HL-1250 through the USB port.
The printer is recognized when it powers up:
ugen0.4: at usbus0
ulpt0: on
usbus0
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
and it starts warming up when
