On Sun 01 Feb 04, 9:57 PM, Mark K. Kim said: > That happens to me, too, sometimes, with LaserJet 1100. But I can eject > the page by depressing the button on the printer (it only has one button) > once. My HP Deskjet sometimes did that, too, and I could eject the page > by pressing one of the buttons... not sure which one... maybe either one > (it has two.) > > What printer configuration tool (if any) do you use?
my printer configuration tool is vim. ;-) > Generally there's an > option to send force-eject the last page after it's printed. It may print > an extra blank page sometimes, but it's worth testing. you mean with lpr? i'll look into that. > Alternatively, you > can write a program that sends a formfeed character to the printer, and > run that program when the printer gets stuck. Printing another page (of > anything) after the printer getting stuck might help, too. i'll definitely look into that. actually, win2k and win98 both *always* print an extra sheet when printing to this printer. i figured it was either a win driver issue or my misconfiguration of samba. either one seems unlikely. these are fairly common printers, and i'm sure MS/hp/whomever worked out driver issues. and i've been up and down with smb.conf so many times i can't even count. windows always sends that extra page... but i'm certain this isn't related to the other problem in any way... pete > Good luck! > > -Mark > > > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > i have an HP laserjet 6MP. it works great on linux. it's shared with > > other linux and windows systems. no problems. > > > > well, almost no problems. > > > > every blue moon, i'll queue something with lpr, and the printer LEDs > > will flash like they normally do to indicate "i'm receiving data". > > > > but after the data gets trasfered to the printer, the "data LED" and > > "ready LED" will remain on. my printer manual says this state is > > called: > > > > "data is in the printer memory (form feed)" > > > > and says to press the "go button" to start printing. i hit the "go > > button", but nothing prints. > > > > eventually, the data LED goes out indicating the printer is in the > > "ready for printing" state. the job is gone. > > > > it's like the printer receives data but just gives up on printing it. > > this happens on all the operating systems in the house: debian, suse, > > redhat, win2k and win98. > > > > has anybody seen this happen before? any guesses as to what causes it? > > > > the only thing i can think of is perhaps a flaw in the postscript or > > perhaps the printer's postscript interpreter. > > > > it'll happen to me once every 2 weeks - 1 month, so it's pretty > > infrequent. i can get around it by "printing" whatever i want to an > > bitmap file, and using gimp to print the file. but that's kind of a > > rotten way to do things, and the quality stinks compared to nice raster > > postscript. > > > > pete > > > > -- > > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > -- > Mark K. Kim > AIM: markus kimius > Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ > Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci > Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 > PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE > PGP key available on the homepage > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
