From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) Subject: Re: Anyone using a HP Deskjet? Date: 9 Aug 1992 04:31:16 GMT
<previous message on HP DeskJet deleted>
This doesn't seem to be a problem specific to the DeskJet; my brand-spanking-new
HP LaserJet III does the same thing (well, it spits out all the pages it should
have been printing on...), and it only prints out the two lines occaisionally.
(i.e.-sometimes it prints out the two lines, which look something like this:
Line 1 or whatever the first line really is
line 2 or whatever the second line really is
and then everything else is off the page, I think. Sometimes, it doesn't
even print those lines...)
I thought it was a problem with CR/LF, but I sent the escape code to set
CR=CR/LF to the printer, and printing the same file from DOS resulted in
the same problem. However, other ASCII files printed just fine from DOS.
Nothing will print right from Linux...
Is there a problem with HP Printers in general? I know there's nothing
wrong with the printer itself, as it prints perfectly from DOS...maybe it's
just that Linux/UNIX doesn't like PCL5. Anybody from HP (or elsewhere) like
to take a stab? (I'm going to check my PCL-5 manual and see if it has any
leads...)
James
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