Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 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 :)
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> --

Changing lpt2 to lpa2 in my /etc/printcap solved the problem.  Where is this
little trick documented?

Thanks again.

George