[lug] Small printer problem

[Harris, James A (Jim)]

Power cycling the printer ejects the page, but the next print out will still
hang at the last line or two.

Also... if I leave the unfinished page in the printer and try another print,
the printer will finish the previous doc, eject it, print the next document
and then hang on the last two lines of the last page again... it's really
like the printer just isn't getting the "OK I'm done sending you data" from
the server.  It works great when I hook it directly to my Win98 box, so I
don't think it's printer failure either.

I've included the sh: tag on the printer definition in printcap to suppress
the header.  Is there anything else that I need to do like that?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Riggs [mailto:rob at pangalactic.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:41 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Small printer problem


"Harris, James A (Jim)" wrote:
> 
> is this:  I'll send a job and the printer will print everything but the
last
> two lines, then it just hangs.  It's almost like the printer is waiting
for
...
> not help.  What's really weird is this:  the very very first file I send
> after a reboot will print fine, but everyone after that hangs in this way.

Does power-cycling the printer fix the problem? You say that you've set the
printer up to take raw output. Is it possible that lpr is trying to print
a burst page after the job is done and confusing the printer?

-- 
Rob Riggs
Technical Staff
Tummy.com, Ltd.
http://www.tummy.com/

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