Re: [LUG] Can't stop printing

[lee quick <leequick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Abraham wrote:

> Hi Lee
>         Thanks for your reply.
>         I've made so many attempts to stop the printer that I've had
>         many odd effects but yes hat's something like what I'm getting
>         at the moment.
>         What actually happens is 3-4 lines of garbage and then a
>         FF and then the same thing again, forever it seems.
>         It also used to do 2-3 lines of garbage and then 2-3 LFs
>         which again never seems to stop.
>         From your mail I gather you have some notion of what is
>         going on so I eagerly await your reply.
>
> Keith Abraham
>
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I  had a similar thing happen yes! i have a a lexmark Inkjet which works 
to a fashion, apparently its something to do with it being a GDI printer 
and not very well supported in linux,however the CUP's setup has a 
driver,now all is well with the install except  the driver is set with 
too high default resolution  for the printer... the result is 3 or 4 
lines of garbled characters and endless blank sheets of paper,just to 
prove it i set
my oki laser(hplaserjet compatible) with an incorrect resoultion and 
driver setup and bingo! garbled rubbish and an empty paper tray.

this of course presumes that you use CUP's

Strange thing is RH7.2 Suse7.3 and Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 all set the DPI 
to high for the printer and have to be manually tweaked, and it's not 
just DPI,paper size is never A4 by default GAH :)



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