It really sounds to me like your cable is defective.  Can you try another
one, or a shorter one?

-Mike Cheponis


On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Trevin Beattie wrote:

> >From: Federico_Lupi@www.datasys.it
> >
> >I use the same printer and had the same problem.  It turned out to be a
> >problem
> >with the interrupt driven device driver for the printer (or, maybe, with
> >the printer
> >firmware).  I solved it using the lpa0 (polled) device in /etc/printcap
> >instead of lpt0.
> >Now it works fine both for text mode and Ghostscript.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Federico Lupi
> 
> I tried that, and it didn't do any good.  Now instead of taking 24 hours
> per page, the printer only spit out 1 inch of print in 8 hours -- in other
> words, its three times *slower* than it was when using interrupts!
> 
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> Trevin Beattie          "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
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