help: cups printing

[Rick Stevens]

roland brouwers wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick 
>>Stevens
>>Sent: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 19:45
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: help: cups printing
>>
>>
>>roland brouwers wrote:
>>
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>>>I have something strange going on
>>>I use cups printing
>>>The instruction I use is : lpr -P prit02 XXXXXX
>>>prit02 is the name of the printer and the listing goes to a
>>>printserver
>>>of d-link (DP-300U)
>>>The listing is produced endlessly. I mean: if the listing is 50 pages,
>>
>>
>>>he wil produce 50 pages and restarts the listing a second time. If I 
>>>do the same thing under MSwindows the listing is correct.
>>>
>>>What do I miss here.
>>
>>
>>Have you checked your printer settings and made sure you didn't set 
>>the queue to print multiple copies? 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stevens
> Sent: woensdag 2 juni 2004 17:31
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: help: cups printing
> 
> 
> roland brouwers wrote:
> 
>>The setting is standard and raw-mode, no driver, because I use my own 
>>driver. When the listing is short, execution is normal.
> 
> 
> That sounds like a problem with the driver.  When you say "I use my own
> driver," do you mean you wrote it?  If so, you'll have to debug it.  If
> you're using a supplied driver, I'd contact the author and discuss the
> issue with him or her.  Try to tie down the specific trip point (number
> of pages, number of bytes, etc.)  That will help the debugging process.
> 
> Oh, and we prefer bottom-posting on this list.
> 
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> This driver works already 10 years on SCO systems

You're trying to use an SCO driver on Linux?  Egad!  I'm amazed it works
at all!

> He does the same thing with 2 different drivers, laserjet5 and
> oki320-Microline-needleprinter
> The same driver works with MSWindows. I configured the printers on
> WinXpPro and skipped Linux (transparent printing on a
> terminalemulator).It worked.
> The strange thing is that it prints exactly 2 times, without losing
> anything.
> I had the same problem on another installation.

I'm not surprised.  SCO and Linux are not the same thing in the least.

> Couldn't there be some kind of setting where the spooler resends the
> printing, when he thinks the printing was not correct? Or can it be that
> the printing is to fast? (I print in charactermode, so it is very fast)
> I never had this problem with SCO, where offcourse CUPS is not used but
> lpd.

Well, no, there's no such setting.  Can I ask why you're using an SCO
driver for either of these two printers when perfectly functional CUPS
drivers for each are shipped with Linux?

> Probably like always I will be the only one in this world to have this
> problem.

Well, yeah.  You're the first person I've heard of trying to make a
SVR4 or SVR3 SCO Unix driver work on Linux.
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