On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:16:56PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > While testing my dads HP 880C printer, I found out that our USB printing > mangles printjobs. stable or current? > I ran the "colorcir.ps" file through ghostscript with the hpijs driver > set to output for the 880C and saved the result in a file. > > If I send that file to the printer via the parallel port, it prints > perfectly. If I send it via USB/ulpt there are corrupted bytes in > the job which mess up the printout in various ways. I've seen this too on current. It seemed that bytes are lost if output is blocked due to a full printers input buffer. I've thought that this was an incompatibility between my USB-printer adapter and the printer because the adapter works with other printers. > I don't have time to hunt this down. If I find something and you have the time to test would be great, as it happened to me with a thermo transfer printer, where tests are expensive. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso_at_bwct.de info_at_bwct.deReceived on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 02:49:34 UTC
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