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On Fri 12 Feb 2016 at 16:50:07 -0500, Kurt Theis wrote: > Thanks for looking at this issue. Hello, Kurt. Don't forget to mail any replies the bug. The last one has been bounced there for you. > > Do any of the parallel port settings in the BIOS have an effect? > > Since this is running on a Raspberry Pi I don't believe I have any > immediate access to the BIOS. At least I'm not aware of any way to access > it. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md But the Pi doesn't have a parallel port, does it? > > I believe the printer has an Emulation Mode. What is being used now? > > Does changing it have any effect? > > There are two emulation modes: IBM PPR and Epson FX. Per the manual I have > IBM Proprinter II/XL and IBM Graphics. The Epson options are FX86/286 and > EX800/1000. > > I tried these emulation modes (after setting the mode in the printer front > panel menu) using IBM and Epson drivers. I Also tried Oki drivers in each > mode. > > After several tries I got this message from the CUPS localhost webpage: > (See image). This came across while using the "Print Test Page" option in > printer maintenance dropdown. > > I set the printer back to OKI mL (microline) mode and changed the driver > back to generic 9 pin. a "ls -la | lpr" command on the command line prints > OK as it should. The Print Test Page drop down still gives me the indicated > error. We assume the Oki 9-Pin Series PPD did not work with either emulation. > > Which particular feature is important to you? > > There are different font styles (pitch/letter styles, > subscript/superscript) that I am trying to use. I have a dim recollection of doing something similar a long time ago with a Panasonic dot matrix printer. Something like using ESC codes, isn't it? > >Please post what you get for > > grep NickName /etc/cups/ppd/<oki_ppd> > > pi@kurts_office:/media/extstorage/pi/simulators/8080 $ l /etc/cups/ppd > total 20 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 Feb 12 16:28 . > drwxr-xr-x 5 root lp 4096 Feb 12 16:28 .. > -rw-r----- 1 root lp 1401 Feb 12 16:28 OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO.ppd The Generic text-only PPD > -rw-r----- 1 root lp 5503 Feb 12 16:24 OKI_DATA_CORP_ML320_1TURBO.ppd.O The Oki 9-Pin Series PPD. There is an okiibm driver, which is the one recommended to use. It is in the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds package. Regards, Brian.
