SUMMARY: parallel printer (nearly) won't work

From: Stefan Voss (s.voss@terradata.de)
Date: Thu Oct 08 1998 - 04:00:08 CDT


Hi again,

this is my original question:

> Hi,
>
> we have a QMS 420 Print System (PostScript printer) attached to the parallel
> port of a Sparc 10 (Solaris 2.5.1, HW 11/97). Since a couple of days, the
> printer behaves strange:
>
> i can easily do a
>
> cat file.ps > /dev/bpp0
>
> and get a printout, but i cannot do a
>
> lpr file.ps
>
> The print job shows up in the queue (lpq) as active, then vanishes - but the
> printer stays silent.
>
> Until now, i tried to
>
> /etc/init.d/lp {stop/start}
> enable/disable and stop/start the printer
> checked everything with admintool
>
> What else can i do ?
>

Until now, I got two replies:

1. Have you tried lpstat -t? (squaint@cac.net)

   yes, I did, and I get this:

   scheduler is running
   system default destination: psmono
   device for psmono: /dev/bpp0
   psmono accepting requests since Wed Oct 7 16:16:26 MET DST 1998
   printer psmono is idle. enabled since Wed Oct 7 16:16:21 MET DST 1998. available.
   character set
   
2. try: lpadmin -p <printer name> -I any ("Evans, Dennis L" <dennis.evans@amp.com>)

   I tried, but got no result.
   
Furthermore, I found out, that i can use the printer from WinCenter (NCD's
add on to WinNT 3.51 and Citrix WinFrame - sorry for mentioning M$ products
here ;-) and from Win95...

However, it turned out, that a simple reboot did the job: now everything works
fine again.

                Stefan

                                      ,,,
                                     (o o)
 --------------------------------o0Oo-(_)-oO0o---------------------------------

  Stefan Voß Phone: # 49 (0) 5139-9908-51
  System and Network Administration Fax: # 49 (0) 5139-9908-10
  TerraData Geophysical Services GmbH e-mail: s.voss@terradata.de
  Ehlbeck 15 a
  D - 30938 Burgwedel, Germany



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:12:50 CDT