begin Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have an annoying intermittent problem with an Apple Laserwriter Select 360 > connected to a Linux box via parallel cable. The spooler is lprng, with an > auto-generated print filter created by magicfilter, which treats the printer > as a generic 300dpi postscript printer. The system is Debian testing. > > The problem: intermittently (particilarly after the printer has just been > turned on, but also after long idle periods), the printer loses the first > hundred lines of a print job, so that it does not see the header identifying > the job as postscript, and prints it as plain text instead. Subsequent print > jobs work fine. > > There is some activity in /var/log/kern.log: > > # The printer has been turned on and a print job sent > May 6 10:28:54 wotan kernel: lp0: compatibility mode > May 6 10:29:03 wotan kernel: lp0 out of paper > # The printout is faulty as described; the paper tray has paper > # Second job sent; prints normally > May 6 10:32:27 wotan kernel: lp0: compatibility mode
what happens when the printer is attached to a different computer? i'm thinking maybe the cable is beginning to fail. do you see similar behavior with other machines? pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
