Hello, On Mar 20 20:48 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
it looks, as if the router is adding a formfeed itself. So I have three questions: 1 Why is there no problem with windows? I add the windows config .
The Windows config shows the queue name as "LPT1" and not as "lpt1". Is the "Raw" protocol possible under Windows? If yes, which port-number does it use? If "Raw" protocol works under Windows, try the CUPS "socket" backend with the port-number used in Windows.
2 Should I/ghostscript/... ommit the formfeed?
Not possible - except you like to hack the printer driver source. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Hi, Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Mar 20 20:48 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
it looks, as if the router is adding a formfeed itself. So I have three questions: 1 Why is there no problem with windows? I add the windows config .
The Windows config shows the queue name as "LPT1" and not as "lpt1". Yep. I already changed that - no positive result.
Is the "Raw" protocol possible under Windows? If yes, which port-number does it use? If "Raw" protocol works under Windows, try the CUPS "socket" backend with the port-number used in Windows.
Unfortunatly, it is not working with Windows.
2 Should I/ghostscript/... ommit the formfeed?
Not possible - except you like to hack the printer driver source.
No, not really :-) But I am still wondering, why it is working with windows. There must be a difference. ??? rgds, Rainer
Hello, On Mar 21 10:51 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But I am still wondering, why it is working with windows.
I can only guess that Windows printer drivers do not add a formfeed at the end because under Windows it is the Windows spooling system (i.e. all what is involved to send the data to the printer) which is responsible for a final formfeed. LPD based printing systems under Linux (e.g. LPRng) have an option in /etc/printcap to either add a formfeed (which is the default) or suppress it (using the "sf" flag), see for example http://lprng.org/LPRng-Reference/LPRng-Reference.html Therefore it is in compliance how LPDs usually work, when the LPD in the printserver box adds a formfeed by default. All what is missing is an option in the printserver box which lets its LPD suppress the formfeed. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Ok, thanks for your help so far. But what should I do? Ask Siemens to create a new firmware for me? :-) In this case, a new printer would be mich cheaper than paying the siemens guys. kind regards, Rainer Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Mar 21 10:51 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But I am still wondering, why it is working with windows.
I can only guess that Windows printer drivers do not add a formfeed at the end because under Windows it is the Windows spooling system (i.e. all what is involved to send the data to the printer) which is responsible for a final formfeed.
LPD based printing systems under Linux (e.g. LPRng) have an option in /etc/printcap to either add a formfeed (which is the default) or suppress it (using the "sf" flag), see for example http://lprng.org/LPRng-Reference/LPRng-Reference.html
Therefore it is in compliance how LPDs usually work, when the LPD in the printserver box adds a formfeed by default. All what is missing is an option in the printserver box which lets its LPD suppress the formfeed.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Mar 21 23:39 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But what should I do? Ask Siemens to create a new firmware for me? :-)
Yes, seriously. Tell the manufacturer of the printserver box about the problem. Enable/disable formfeed is a standard option for LPDs. Man other printserver boxes provide additional "RAW" queues and/or an additional TCP port to circumvent the internal LPD. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Well, as far as I know from other users, Siemens isn't deploying lots of firmware releases all. And I don't believe that they will care for some linux users. So I will have an additional paperper print :-( But maybe you can make an entry in the Novell/SuSE component database with this problem, so other linux users knows about this problem BEFORE they gonna by this hardware. And I will mail a link to this entry to SuSE support;-) kind regards, Rainer Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Mar 21 23:39 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But what should I do? Ask Siemens to create a new firmware for me? :-)
Yes, seriously. Tell the manufacturer of the printserver box about the problem. Enable/disable formfeed is a standard option for LPDs. Man other printserver boxes provide additional "RAW" queues and/or an additional TCP port to circumvent the internal LPD.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:24, Rainer Lay wrote:
Well, as far as I know from other users, Siemens isn't deploying lots of firmware releases all. And I don't believe that they will care for some linux users. So I will have an additional paperper print :-(
But maybe you can make an entry in the Novell/SuSE component database with this problem, so other linux users knows about this problem BEFORE they gonna by this hardware.
And I will mail a link to this entry to SuSE support;-)
kind regards, Rainer
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Mar 21 23:39 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But what should I do? Ask Siemens to create a new firmware for me? :-)
Yes, seriously. Tell the manufacturer of the printserver box about the problem. Enable/disable formfeed is a standard option for LPDs. Man other printserver boxes provide additional "RAW" queues and/or an additional TCP port to circumvent the internal LPD.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Hi this is not of any help but i am having a bit of a ding dong with HP-Compaq right now about Linux on there laptops and quite honestley one part of the organization does not know what the other is doing they are so busy contradicting each other it is actuall rather ammusing to read the mails i keep getting that seem to do the rounds of each department before they get to me .. Pete . -- The Labour party has changed there emblem from a rose to a condom as it more accuratley reflects the governments political stance. A condom allows for inflation halts production destroys the next gereration, protects a bunch of pricks, and givesyou a sense of security while you are actually bieng fucked from GSM
Peter Nikolic schrieb:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:24, Rainer Lay wrote:
Well, as far as I know from other users, Siemens isn't deploying lots of firmware releases all. And I don't believe that they will care for some linux users. So I will have an additional paperper print :-(
But maybe you can make an entry in the Novell/SuSE component database with this problem, so other linux users knows about this problem BEFORE they gonna by this hardware.
And I will mail a link to this entry to SuSE support;-)
kind regards, Rainer
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Mar 21 23:39 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But what should I do? Ask Siemens to create a new firmware for me? :-) Yes, seriously. Tell the manufacturer of the printserver box about the problem. Enable/disable formfeed is a standard option for LPDs. Man other printserver boxes provide additional "RAW" queues and/or an additional TCP port to circumvent the internal LPD.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Hi this is not of any help but i am having a bit of a ding dong with HP-Compaq right now about Linux on there laptops and quite honestley one part of the organization does not know what the other is doing they are so busy contradicting each other it is actuall rather ammusing to read the mails i keep getting that seem to do the rounds of each department before they get to me ..
Pete .
Hi Pete, my problem is not the printer itself, I can use it with usb cabling without a problem. My problem seems to be my WLAN router, which is a Siemens SX541. kind regards, Rainer
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