Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Daniel B. wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I
> >> posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens
> >> of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line
> >> of text (when printing a plain-text file).
> >
> > I'm taking a _very_ wild guess here: perhaps you are using the wrong PPD
> > file. Have you tried with alternative ones (perhaps downloading a new one
> > from linuxprinting.org)?
>
> I'll double check. However, I'm pretty sure I've got the right PPD
> file.
>
> Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in
> the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going
> on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which doesn't
> sound like having the wrong PPD file.
>
> Oh--another thing is that since upgrading to Sarge and 2.6.8
> (2.6.8-2-k7-smp), trying to print occasionally hangs the entire system.
>
> That suggests a problem with the parallel port driver or something
> closer to that later.
>
> Daniel
I don't have an answer, but my experience is "random" errors are due to
hardware failing. My lockups have been due to hw/sw misconfiguration
e.g. irqs colliding.
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