[Samba] Re: EpsonC80 printing problem

[Roberto Fichera]

At 11.33 07/03/02 -0500, Tykodi, Paul wrote:
>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.

Yes! I'm printing via the standard script provided by RH printing system.
Ok! My request was "cryptic" ;-).

>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.

Ok! Il retry with the ESCP/2 sequence.


>Best Regards,
>
>/Paul
>--
>Paul Tykodi
>National Product Manager
>LCI-Intermate US, Inc.
>
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>
> >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.
>
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Roberto Fichera.