[Samba] Re: EpsonC80 printing problem

[Roberto Fichera]

At 10.08 08/03/02 +0100, you wrote:
>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.

I've contacted Epson Tecnical Support, and they answare me that problem 
will be resolved
after I install the last Status Monitor 3 that they have shipped to me 
today. The current
Status Monitor 3 don't permit text print.


Roberto Fichera.