Bug 12837 – no activity on printer

Bug 12837 - no activity on printer

Summary:	no activity on printer

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	lpr (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2000-06-22 23:24 EDT by s-ramaswamy
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-06-26 13:42:26 EDT
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Description s-ramaswamy 2000-06-22 23:24:01 EDT

Printer Model - EPSON STYLUS PHOTO 1200

MANUFACTURER:EPSON;
DESCRIPTION:EPSON Stylus Photo 1200;
COMMAND SET:ESCPL2,BDC,D4;

All above fetched succesfully by parport_probe



Result of Print Ascii test page - no response in printer
Print ASCII directly to port   - no response from printer

If I connect an EPSON COLOUR 800 printer first and install the driver
for the ESC/P2 printer and then remove the parallel port from the back of
the printer and connect it to the STYLUS PHOTO 1200, then the ASCII test
page prints correctly.  The post-script test page prints with wrong
colours.

The status for lp in /var/spool/lpd/lp/status is
lp is ready and printing.

But whatever I do the printer is stone dead and does not respond - when I
try to install it using printtool.

I have tried both gnu ghostscript 5.50 as well as alladin 6.01..

I am using redhat 6.2..

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Rams,

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-06-26 13:42:24 EDT

Does something simple like
	echo "Test Test Test" >/dev/lp0
work?
If not, what error message does it output?

Do you have the line
	alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
in /etc/conf.modules?

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-17 11:23:39 EDT

Closing due to lack of user input

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