Bug#814478: cups: OKI 320 print drivers not working correctly

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

severity 814478 normal
tags 814478 moreinfo
thanks



Thank you for the report, Kurt, I think because you can print to the
printer a reduced severity is justified.

On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 19:47:40 -0500, Kurt Theis wrote:

> The printer driver for the OKI Microline 320 turbo printer does not send
> any recognizable output to the printer. This is a dot matrix printer.
> 
> In installing cups, I chose the USB connected OKI 320 driver. When I printed a
> text file (a listing of ls-a) random characters were printed out along with a LOT
> of FF's. 

Do any of the parallel port settings in the BIOS have an effect?
 
> When I switched the driver to generic the printer worked just fine. I switched back to the OKI
> driver, got the same bad result. I switched back to generic and all works well.

I believe the printer has an Emulation Mode. What is being used now?
Does changing it have any effect?

> FYI - Since 1994 the drivers NEVER worked for ANY oki dot matrix printer
> I tried to use. This is not a new occurance. Guessing the old drivers were just copied 
> every time since then (yes, i have had a working Linux installation since '94)
> 
> I very much want to use the driver for the OKI since it had features I want, that 
> the generic driver does not.

Which particular feature is important to you?

Please post what you get for

  grep NickName /etc/cups/ppd/<oki_ppd>

Regards,

Brian.