Subject: [netatalk-admins] pap and epson stylus color 800 localtalk interface
From: Steve Hsieh (steveh@eecs.umich.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 23 1997 - 01:36:46 EDT
Anyone out there using pap to connect to an epson stylus color 800 inket
with the localtalk interface? It would seem that this particular printer
doesn't work too well with pap. When you send a job, data flows very
slowly, and pap isn't able to disconnect when done (there is no way to get
out of a pap -pprinter:EPSONLQ2@ZONE once you start reading from stdin).
Even if you use the -E option, it says "Bad response". If you terminate
pap with ctrl-c, the epson will remain busy forever until you pull its
power plug and plug it back in (the power switch doesn't reset the
interface).
While the printer may not conform to all the standards, it does seem to
work fine with the Macintosh epson appletalk driver, so it seems possible
that netatalk could work with it if someone knew what was going on...
(We have no problem with regular laser printers or even HP inkjets..)
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