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

Thanks for looking at this issue.

> Do any of the parallel port settings in the BIOS have an effect?

Since this is running on a Raspberry Pi I don't believe I have any immediate access to the BIOS. At least I'm not aware of any way to access it.

> I believe the printer has an Emulation Mode. What is being used now?

> Does changing it have any effect?

There are two emulation modes: IBM PPR and Epson FX. Per the manual I have IBM Proprinter II/XL and IBM Graphics. The Epson options are FX86/286 and EX800/1000.

I tried these emulation modes (after setting the mode in the printer front panel menu) using IBM and Epson drivers. I Also tried Oki drivers in each mode.

After several tries I got this message from the CUPS localhost webpage: (See image). This came across while using the "Print Test Page" option in printer maintenance dropdown.

I set the printer back to OKI mL (microline) mode and changed the driver back to generic 9 pin. a "ls -la | lpr" command on the command line prints OK as it should. The Print Test Page drop down still gives me the indicated error.

> Which particular feature is important to you?

There are different font styles (pitch/letter styles, subscript/superscript) that I am trying to use.

>Please post what you get for

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

pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ l /etc/cups/ppd

total 20

drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 Feb 12 16:28 .

drwxr-xr-x 5 root lp 4096 Feb 12 16:28 ..

-rw-r----- 1 root lp 1401 Feb 12 16:28 OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO.ppd

-rw-r----- 1 root lp 5503 Feb 12 16:24 OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO.ppd.O

pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $

pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ sudo cat /etc/cups/ppd/OKI*.ppd

*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"

*% Text-only printer definition

*FormatVersion: "4.3"

*FileVersion: "1.1"

*LanguageVersion: English

*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1

*PCFileName: "TEXTONLY.PPD"

*Manufacturer: "Generic"

*Product: "(Generic)"

*cupsVersion: 1.0

*cupsManualCopies: True

*cupsModelNumber: 2

*cupsFilter: "text/plain 0 textonly"

*cupsFilter2: "text/plain text/plain 0 textonly"

*ModelName: "Generic text-only printer"

*ShortNickName: "Generic text-only printer"

*NickName: "Generic text-only printer"

*PSVersion: "(2017.000) 0"

*LanguageLevel: "2"

*ColorDevice: False

*DefaultColorSpace: Gray

*FileSystem: False

*Throughput: "8"

*LandscapeOrientation: Plus90

*VariablePaperSize: False

*TTRasterizer: Type42

*DefaultImageableArea: Letter

*ImageableArea Letter/US Letter: "18 36 594 756"

*DefaultPaperDimension: Letter

*PaperDimension Letter/Letter: "612 792"

*OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne

*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize

*DefaultPageSize: Letter

*PageSize Letter/Letter: "<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"

*CloseUI: *PageSize

*OpenUI *PageRegion: PickOne

*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageRegion

*DefaultPageRegion: Letter

*PageRegion Letter/Letter: "<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"

*CloseUI: *PageRegion

*OpenUI *SendFF: Boolean

*DefaultSendFF: False

*SendFF True/True: ""

*SendFF False/False: ""

*CloseUI: *SendFF

pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $

The "Text Only Printer" is the current generic setup.

I get the following when I set the printer driver (thru CUPS local webpage) to Oki 9 pin:

*PCFileName: "okidata9.ppd"

*Product: "(9-Pin Series)"

*Manufacturer: "Oki"

*ModelName: "Oki 9-Pin Series"

*ShortNickName: "Oki 9-Pin Series"

*NickName: "Oki 9-Pin Series"

*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 0"

This setting gives me gibberish when printing.

Hope this helps a bit.

Kurt

Print Test Page OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO Error

Unable to print test page:

Unsupported format "application/vnd.cups-pdf-banner".

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

theis.kurt@gmail.com
http://www.landfall.net