severity 814478 normal tags 814478 moreinfo thanks
Thank you for the report, Kurt, I think because you can print to the printer a reduced severity is justified. On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 19:47:40 -0500, Kurt Theis wrote: > 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. Do any of the parallel port settings in the BIOS have an effect? > 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. I believe the printer has an Emulation Mode. What is being used now? Does changing it have any effect? > 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. Which particular feature is important to you? Please post what you get for grep NickName /etc/cups/ppd/<oki_ppd> Regards, Brian.
