[Samba] Re: EpsonC80 printing problem

[Tykodi, Paul]

Dear Roberto,

As shipped, Win 98 OSR2 doesn't offer an LPD service as part of its TCP/IP
protocol stack. Thus I assume your mention of "lpr'ing" in your post means
re-directing the output to a Samba shared printer.  When running Samba, you
should be able to access the printer from Linux via the typical Windows
Shared printer method. If you believe this has successfully been
accomplished, you would want to make sure the data you were sending to the
printer was in the Epson ESC/2 Raster format of printer data stream. This
version of Epson printer language is created by the appropriate Epson C80
print driver. It happens that this particular model of Epson inkjet printer
doesn't support PostScript. If a PostScript file (or text file not converted
to Epson ESC/2 Raster format) was sent to it, the blinking green light and
no output would be the correct result.

Best Regards,

/Paul
--
Paul Tykodi
National Product Manager
LCI-Intermate US, Inc.

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paul at intermate-us.com
www.intermate.com

>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:52:11 +0100
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>From: Roberto Fichera <kernel at tekno-soft.it>
>Subject: [Samba] EpsonC80 printing problem
>
>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone have printing problem with an EPSON C80 connected to
>a Win98 OSR2 with USB cable ? I'm trying to "lpr'ing" a text file from a
>Linuxbox RH7.2 to the above printer without success. The print seem sent
ok, because
>the green led flash something, but doesn't print.
>
>Any suggestion ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Roberto Fichera.