Neil A. Carson wrote:

> Neil Bingham wrote:
>
> > I had exactly the same problem.  When setting up my BSD partition printing
> > was tested using an Olivetti inkjet of some sort, and when I tried to use my
> > normal printer it reports the same symptoms as above.  This was an Epson
> > Stylus Colour II.  I am running the Voyager alpha kernel.
>
> We've just tried this with an Epson LQ400 and an Epson laser printer,
> and (you guessed it) can't reproduce it :-(
>
> Can someone send a trace please?
>

Hi,

 I had this problem with an Epson Stylus color II, and someone posted the
solution: you need to alter '/etc/printcap'.

this is how mine looks:

> # $NetBSD: printcap,v 1.3 1996/05/08 17:19:45 thorpej Exp $
> # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90

> lp|local line printer:\
>
:lp=/dev/lpa0:pw=80:pl=66:sd=/var/spool/lpd:sh="true":sb="true":sf=true:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

notice that it uses /dev/lpa0 instead of /dev/lpt0.

/dev/lpt0 locks up on my Epson

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