:~> Hi,
:~>anyone has any experience with this? I upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to
:~>6.1, and now my LaserJet 6L (you know, the small personal HP printer)
:~>uses different paper path: instead of the output bin, all the printed
:~>pages come out thru the small slit at bottom (never before even knew
Isn`t a life interesting? Every day a new surprise! Sounds impossible
until it happens.
:~>of such a possibility). I am using the lp and printfilters packages
:~>which came with Mdk 6.1 - no
:~>upgrades, and using HP LaserJet 4/5/6 printer filter. Apparently,
:~>something was changed in the driver - any ideas? Or did I hit some
:~>button on the printer?
0) Make sure you did not press any buttons on the printer during the
upgrade (does it have any)?.-)
1) Upgrade the lpr package. The "standard 6.1" one sometimes behaves very
strangely. I had a lot of troubles with it, though none was so cute as
yours.
2) If this does not help, try re-installing the printer.
I know that this sounds very much like windows-troubleshooting, but
lpr-package from 6.1 is really something peculiar - i have experienced
all kinds of problems with it, but "lpr-0.43-1mdk" works OK.
:~>PS. For some strange reason, during the upgrade the default printer
:~>port was changed to /dev/lp1 - had to change it back to /dev/lp0 to
:~>get anything printing at all. I wonder why... But of course, this
:~>doesn't really matter.
Maybe 2.2 kernel has its fingers in the game - the paralell-port
handling has changed a lot from the 2.0.x to 2.2.x kernels...
I had some problems with printer-ports too.
cu
Denis
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