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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing problem with Okidata OLE600. Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 19:39:40 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3234727C.6028@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bb9e93$2739c860$9bc4abc7@glen> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Glen wrote: > > This is my /etc/printcap! > > oki|lp|okidata laser:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:sh:sd=var/spool/lpd/oki:\ > :if=/usr/local/libexec/okiif: > > I have created the /var/spool/lpd/oki and chown to daemon. > This is the filter file I'm using. > > printf "\033\&k2G" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0 > exit 2 > > When I print I still get the stair case effect!!!! > My next problem is my printer only prints the first few print requests > then when I send another print job it prints blank pages only a couple. > Then I check the que and it has been processed. If the system is > shutdown the printer will print a few more requests. Then it will start > printing blank pages for each request. > Sounds like the classic LF-without-CR problem on the printer. If you can't set your printer to automatically do a CR when it reads LF, you'll have to add a short (C or other language) routine to check each character and send a CR prior to each LF. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |