Subject: Re: USB Printing still panicking ...sometimes
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: current-users
Date: 04/28/2005 10:01:17
On Wed, Apr 27 2005 at 12:37:43 +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> It doesn't have to be concurrent job. I suppose, it's tied in some way to
> the amount of data. I never noticed this while printing in character-mode,
> when printer received just some hundreds of bytes, and it happens always
> everytime, when I'm trying to print using gs - when printer is receiving
> several hundreds KILObyte of data to be printed
Yes. I think it happens sometimes, when the printer's(*) buffer is full and
it can't accept more data. I tried to get debug info for this some time ago
but that slowed down the driver so much that it stopped happening and I kept
it as a work around and forget about it.

(*)with an Epson ink jet, but not with a Brother laser printer.
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