Bill&Virginia Hodges wrote:
>
> My printer ceased to function when I upgraded my pentium box from
> Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1.
> It is a postscript printer connected to my only parallel port
> at port 0x378 (IRQ 7).
> Upon issueing "lpr xxx.ps" the printer starts as if it is going to print
>
> but nothing is printed. It is not queued in the spool either.
> /etc/printcap defines /dev/lp0 as my printer device.
>
> [hodges@hodges linux]$ ls -alt /dev/lp0
> crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/lp0
>
> Any suggestions?
try this to see if it will print the job:
echo "^L" > /dev/lp0
To get the ^L, you'll need to hit control-v, control-l.
If that gets the document to print, you need to use printtool to enable
sending an end of page at the end of your print job.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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