lp-device trouble again

[barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de]

Thank you all for trying to answer my question. I think I have forgotten
to say, that I am indeed "cat"-ing a postsript-file (not raw text or 
anything else, but I admit that I tried...) to the printer,
but it does not work. Under DOS the command "copy junk.ps lpt1"
prints every postscript-file without hassle. So it's seems not to be
a hardware problem. 
If it's a "line-termination character problem", how can solve it?


I wrote:
> I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print.
> If I try to print anything (via "cat" as root, or with "lpr"), 
> the device seems to receive data, because its display says 
> so ("PROCESSING...WAITING..." and then "READY"). 
> But it still does not print.
> My Debian is 1.2 of the InfoMagic Dev.Resource-CD.
> I'm using apsfilter_4.9.1-10 (well, in fact I'm _not_using_ it so far).
> My printer is a NEC Silentwriter S60P-Printer. This is a 
> Postscript-Printer, but an old one. It works fine under DOS (Win95), 
> and it had been sucessful the RedHat-Linux-Computer of a friend.
> I do not use plip, I read the Printing-Howto and fiddled around with tunelp, 
> it keeps saying things like:
> 
> #       bash# tunelp /dev/lp1
> #       /dev/lp1 using polling
> #       bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s
> #       /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line
> #       bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 7
> #       /dev/lp1 using IRQ 7
> #       bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s   
> #       /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line
> 
> with no positive effect on printing.
> 
> I tried, if a kernel-version-upgrade would help, but nope:
> No printing with 2.0.27 nor 2.0.29.
> lp-support is a module in the kernel, kerneld starts it at boot time.

Frank Barknecht
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