On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, John Kohl wrote:

> One of them also runs Billware, so I tried copying the same file using
> that OS to the printer, and it prints just fine.  Under NetBSD, it looks
> like there are some data repeated or otherwise corrupted (groups of
> lines repeated in "stuttering" like patterns).  Same behavior from all
> of lpa0np, lpt0, lpa0.  I set the port for SPP mode in the BIOS (I'm
> presuming that means "standard parallel port").

What sort of printer is it?

What do you have in /etc/printcap? Make sure you have the sh option - the
header page that the printing system puts in can confuse many printers.

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