Bug#814478: cups: OKI 320 print drivers not working correctly
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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.
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