topic LPRng Printing Problem in Operating System - Linux

LPRng Printing Problem

george_114 — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:23:44 GMT

I have added a local printer that attaced to parallel port.My problem is :Why my printer can not scrool down to the next page when printing the next page?Example: on page 1, it's content only half of page so page 2 is printed too on page 1.I am using Text Base Only Driver.

Thanks in advanced for your help.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

Mark Grant — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:25:54 GMT

I think you might need to tell us what printer it is and what print system you are using (I always suggest people use "cups"). Also, it might be the software you are using to print. Please reply with some more details.

Regards

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

george_114 — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:31:54 GMT

my printer is Epson LQ 2180 and i use LPRng system printing.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

Mark Grant — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:36:36 GMT

Well, it seems that the form feed character is not being intepreted by the printer. I don't know this printer so I can only really suggest you have a look at "cups"

http://www.cups.com

The drivers for the printers it supports are spot on.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

Bruce Copeland — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:18:26 GMT

I agree with Mark. I fooled with LPRng briefly a couple of years ago and had similar problems when printing from certain applications. I switched to CUPS and have never looked back!

Bruce

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

george_114 — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:12:48 GMT

Any body knows in CUPS if my current application (LPRng) uses this sintax to send printing command to Epson LQ 2180 :

The following sintax in LPRng:
Printer10cpi:chr(27) + chr(80)
Printer12cpi:chr(27) + chr(77)
Printer15cpi:chr(27) + chr(103)
PrinterReset:chr(27) + chr(64)

How does those in CUPS???

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

Mark Grant — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 00:39:25 GMT

George,

I am not completely sure but cups is supposed to be 100% compatible with "lp" apart from a couple of rarely used functions.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

Madhu Sudhan_1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:38:40 GMT

You get lprngtool to administer from lprng website. Try this tool.

Easy to administer.

-Madhu