Package: cups Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
The printer driver for the OKI Microline 320 turbo printer does not send any recognizable output to the printer. This is a dot matrix printer. In installing cups, I chose the USB connected OKI 320 driver. When I printed a text file (a listing of ls-a) random characters were printed out along with a LOT of FF's. When I switched the driver to generic the printer worked just fine. I switched back to the OKI driver, got the same bad result. I switched back to generic and all works well. FYI - Since 1994 the drivers NEVER worked for ANY oki dot matrix printer I tried to use. This is not a new occurance. Guessing the old drivers were just copied every time since then (yes, i have had a working Linux installation since '94) I very much want to use the driver for the OKI since it had features I want, that the generic driver does not. Kurt -- System Information: Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) Release: 8.0 Codename: jessie Architecture: armv7l Kernel: Linux 4.1.13-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cups depends on: ii cups-client 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii cups-common 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii cups-core-drivers 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii cups-daemon 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii cups-filters 1.0.61-5+deb8u3 ii cups-ppdc 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii cups-server-common 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1 ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-5 ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-5 ii libc-bin 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii libcupscgi1 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii libcupsimage2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii libcupsmime1 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii libcupsppdc1 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.19-1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+rpi1+nmu1 ii poppler-utils 0.26.5-2 ii procps 2:3.3.9-9 Versions of packages cups recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-5 ii colord 1.2.1-1+b2 ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.0.61-5+deb8u3 ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.10-3+b3 Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 pn cups-pdf <none> pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none> pn hplip <none> pn printer-driver-hpcups <none> pn smbclient <none> ii udev 215-17+deb8u2 -- debconf information: cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd cupsys/raw-print: true
