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Package: cups
Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
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.
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.
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.
Kurt
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
Release: 8.0
Codename: jessie
Architecture: armv7l
Kernel: Linux 4.1.13-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii cups-client 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii cups-common 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii cups-core-drivers 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii cups-daemon 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii cups-filters 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
ii cups-ppdc 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii cups-server-common 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-5
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-5
ii libc-bin 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libcupscgi1 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libcupsimage2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libcupsmime1 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libcupsppdc1 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.19-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+rpi1+nmu1
ii poppler-utils 0.26.5-2
ii procps 2:3.3.9-9
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-5
ii colord 1.2.1-1+b2
ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.0.61-5+deb8u3
ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.10-3+b3
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
pn cups-pdf <none>
pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none>
pn hplip <none>
pn printer-driver-hpcups <none>
pn smbclient <none>
ii udev 215-17+deb8u2
-- debconf information:
cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
cupsys/raw-print: true
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