On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:24:35AM -0400, George Sollish wrote:
> Has anyone been able to print using the Canon Bubblejet 4300?  I should
> say 'satisfactorily' since it does print ASCII very slowly.  I'm running
> 1.4.1 i386 on an IBM ThinkPad 755c (486DX4-100).  The printer is on
> /dev/lpt2, and /etc/printcap is very basic:  just an sd, lf, and mx
> statement.
> 
> I've tried adding an 'ff' based on the comments in this month's Daemon
> News, but no change, and yes, I did restart lpd.

Could you try /dev/lpa2 instead of /dev/lpt2 ?
This will disable the use of interrupts. I've never been able to get a
printer to work properly in interrupt-driven mode, mut maybe it's just a
hardware problem ... Polled mode works just fine for me, I didn't look
further :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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