In message <199605301120.NAA04910@petium.rhein.de>  Peter Simons wrote:
> Stefan Grefen wrote:
> 
>  > I guess your BIOS configured the "Advanced printing mode" or something
>  > like this.
> 
> I have configured it to SPP mode, what stands for "standard parallel
> port" I think. I have tried various other settings, though, such as
> EPP and ECP, both with the same result: lpt0 printer offline and junk
> after half of a page.

Looks like my BIOS. I can't turn ECP or EPP on (it offers those choices
but doesn't change the chip setting :-(( :-)
May be there is a jumper for that? Try removing the DMA jumper if it's set.

Stefan

> 
> I will check the settings again, though.
> 
> 	-peter

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