Hello, On Dec 16 16:17 Christopher Reimer wrote (shortened):
I have a Samsung ML-4500 laser printer on the parallel port and a HP Deskjet 648C on the usb port. I normally use the laser printer all the time. Whenever I print out a bunch of color pictures on the Deskjet, output to the laser printer stops working.
I am only guessing: You use your parallel port in polling mode (i.e. without an IRQ) and while printig both via parallel port and via USB the data transfer via parallel port starves. Therefore try if it helps to use the parallel port in interrupt driven mode - see the manual or see for example http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/04/jsmeix_print-device-parallel.html (/etc/modules.conf was again renamed to /etc/modprobe.conf). Note that when a backend exits with non-zero exit code then the cupsd disables the queue - see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html "The Backends" Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/