Thanks for looking at this issue. > Do any of the parallel port settings in the BIOS have an effect?
Since this is running on a Raspberry Pi I don't believe I have any immediate access to the BIOS. At least I'm not aware of any way to access it. > I believe the printer has an Emulation Mode. What is being used now? > Does changing it have any effect? There are two emulation modes: IBM PPR and Epson FX. Per the manual I have IBM Proprinter II/XL and IBM Graphics. The Epson options are FX86/286 and EX800/1000. I tried these emulation modes (after setting the mode in the printer front panel menu) using IBM and Epson drivers. I Also tried Oki drivers in each mode. After several tries I got this message from the CUPS localhost webpage: (See image). This came across while using the "Print Test Page" option in printer maintenance dropdown. I set the printer back to OKI mL (microline) mode and changed the driver back to generic 9 pin. a "ls -la | lpr" command on the command line prints OK as it should. The Print Test Page drop down still gives me the indicated error. > Which particular feature is important to you? There are different font styles (pitch/letter styles, subscript/superscript) that I am trying to use. >Please post what you get for grep NickName /etc/cups/ppd/<oki_ppd> pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ l /etc/cups/ppd total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 Feb 12 16:28 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root lp 4096 Feb 12 16:28 .. -rw-r----- 1 root lp 1401 Feb 12 16:28 OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO.ppd -rw-r----- 1 root lp 5503 Feb 12 16:24 OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO.ppd.O pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ sudo cat /etc/cups/ppd/OKI*.ppd *PPD-Adobe: "4.3" *% *% Text-only printer definition *% *FormatVersion: "4.3" *FileVersion: "1.1" *LanguageVersion: English *LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1 *PCFileName: "TEXTONLY.PPD" *Manufacturer: "Generic" *Product: "(Generic)" *cupsVersion: 1.0 *cupsManualCopies: True *cupsModelNumber: 2 *cupsFilter: "text/plain 0 textonly" *cupsFilter2: "text/plain text/plain 0 textonly" *ModelName: "Generic text-only printer" *ShortNickName: "Generic text-only printer" *NickName: "Generic text-only printer" *PSVersion: "(2017.000) 0" *LanguageLevel: "2" *ColorDevice: False *DefaultColorSpace: Gray *FileSystem: False *Throughput: "8" *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90 *VariablePaperSize: False *TTRasterizer: Type42 *DefaultImageableArea: Letter *ImageableArea Letter/US Letter: "18 36 594 756" *DefaultPaperDimension: Letter *PaperDimension Letter/Letter: "612 792" *OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize *DefaultPageSize: Letter *PageSize Letter/Letter: "<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" *CloseUI: *PageSize *OpenUI *PageRegion: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageRegion *DefaultPageRegion: Letter *PageRegion Letter/Letter: "<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice" *CloseUI: *PageRegion *OpenUI *SendFF: Boolean *DefaultSendFF: False *SendFF True/True: "" *SendFF False/False: "" *CloseUI: *SendFF pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ The "Text Only Printer" is the current generic setup. I get the following when I set the printer driver (thru CUPS local webpage) to Oki 9 pin: *PCFileName: "okidata9.ppd" *Product: "(9-Pin Series)" *Manufacturer: "Oki" *ModelName: "Oki 9-Pin Series" *ShortNickName: "Oki 9-Pin Series" *NickName: "Oki 9-Pin Series" *PSVersion: "(3010.000) 0" This setting gives me gibberish when printing. Hope this helps a bit. Kurt Print Test Page OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO Error Unable to print test page: Unsupported format "application/vnd.cups-pdf-banner". On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Brian Potkin <[email protected]> wrote: > severity 814478 normal > tags 814478 moreinfo > thanks > > > > Thank you for the report, Kurt, I think because you can print to the > printer a reduced severity is justified. > > On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 19:47:40 -0500, Kurt Theis wrote: > > > The printer driver for the OKI Microline 320 turbo printer does not send > > any recognizable output to the printer. This is a dot matrix printer. > > > > In installing cups, I chose the USB connected OKI 320 driver. When I > printed a > > text file (a listing of ls-a) random characters were printed out along > with a LOT > > of FF's. > > Do any of the parallel port settings in the BIOS have an effect? > > > When I switched the driver to generic the printer worked just fine. I > switched back to the OKI > > driver, got the same bad result. I switched back to generic and all > works well. > > I believe the printer has an Emulation Mode. What is being used now? > Does changing it have any effect? > > > FYI - Since 1994 the drivers NEVER worked for ANY oki dot matrix printer > > I tried to use. This is not a new occurance. Guessing the old drivers > were just copied > > every time since then (yes, i have had a working Linux installation > since '94) > > > > I very much want to use the driver for the OKI since it had features I > want, that > > the generic driver does not. > > Which particular feature is important to you? > > Please post what you get for > > grep NickName /etc/cups/ppd/<oki_ppd> > > Regards, > > Brian. > -- [email protected] http://www.landfall.net
