Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] toner low errors
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 16 1998 - 20:58:32 EDT
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Darren Atkinson wrote:
> I thank Wesley and Andras for their responses, but unfortunately they
> didn't fix the problem. My first thought was that I was using the -w
> flag to pap (from psf) and that the string "Printer Error: toner is
> low" certainly doesn't match "waiting". But, even when I just use pap
> by itself without the -w flag, I still experience the same problem:
[details snipped]
> The printer is set for "LOW TONER = CONT" so that can't be the
> problem. As a matter of fact, we've bought some defective toner
> cartridges that work just fine using TCP/IP except the printer always
> says "LOW TONER".
>
> What I'm thinking is that this is probably a another bug in HP's PAP
> implementation. If "LOW TONER = STOP" then yes, the open should fail.
> But, if "LOW TONER = CONT", then the open should succeed. So, I guess
> I really need yet another kludge to be added to pap/psf to work around
> this problem. Is there any way to open the connection and ignore the
> error?
Antoher option is to fire up a packet sniffer. Watch a Mac print to this
printer, and see what happens. As the LaserWriter driver gets this right
when talking to our HP printer, I think there's a standard way to deal
with this error.
Take care,
Bill
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