RE: Local printer access question..

[Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>]

--- "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector@telia.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> > Of Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:16 PM
> 
> > > > Was my writing unclear?
> >
> > No, no, it was my late night reading...
> 
>  Ahh... glad to hear that ;-)
> 
> > > > > Also, try setting up a dummy printer that prints to
> > > > > file and see if that works.
> > > > >     Igor
> > > >
> > > >  Hrm... why didn't I think of that! >:-P
> 
> --8<--
> > > >  Works like a charm... so this should prove one thing:
> > > > Cheap HP printers aren't up to all the tasks you could expect.
> > > >  :-/
> 
> > > I don't know about the DOS print command, but lpr is just a raw
> > > spooler. It is intended to be used as a filter to send data *already
> > > formatted for a specific printer* to a print queue. In other words, it
> is
> > > intended to  send postscript data to a postscript printer, or PCL data
> to a
> > > PCL-capable printer. lpr knows nothing about any printer and makes no
> > > attempt to inject printer-specific formatting codes. *If and only if*
> your
> > > printer can directly print a text file will using a command like
> > >
> > > lpr -P some_device file.txt
> > >
> > > work. You might try the following. Using notepad or a similar *Windows*
> app,
> > > try printing your autoexec.bat file to your Deskjet printer, but in the
> print
> > > dialog, check the box that says "Print to file" so that the formatted
> data
> > > stream ends up in a file instead of being sent directly to the printer.
> Then,
> > > try spooling that file using lpr and/or the dos print command. Let me
> know what
> > > happens.
> > >
> > > --Rick
> 
>  Using a single page HTML print from IE6 in "zz.prn"
> 
> These do "work":
> 	D:\>print /D:LPT1: zz.prn
> 	D:\zz.prn is currently being printed
> 
> 	D:\>print /D:\\P450\DJ720C zz.prn
> 	D:\zz.prn is currently being printed
> 
> This one has problems:
> 	$ cat /cygdrive/d/zz.prn | lpr -l -PLPT1:

What, exactly, do you mean by "has problems"? Any error messages,
etc?Unfortunately, I have no way to test lpt-style devices since I don't have
any locally-connected printers, either at home or work.

> 
>  The first doc prints. Any following documents causes the printer to
> "hang" - turning it off is enough to be able to print yet another doc. On
> one occassion I got something that I've never seen before: Power, "no paper"
> and "low ink" leds rapidly flashing in that sequence ;-7
> 
> This one "works"
> 	$ cat /cygdrive/d/zz.prn | lpr -l
> 	$ echo $PRINTER
> 	//P450/DJ720C
> 	$
> 
> with one exception on all of them; they do not eject the page at the end of
> printing. Unless you start another document print...

Near as I can tell, this must be a driver problem. It ejects the last page just
fine on my Deskjet 990C.

--Rick


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