blazer still doesn't work

[igueths at attbi.com]

Hi Greg. If you could do that that would be great! Well in terms of messing up 
the settings for the ink printer, that really isn't possible, since you are not 
modifying any of the print queue settings in /etc/printcap. Throughout all my 
testing I have not modified printcap in any way. And in terms of how I print to 
the ink printer, I use lpr -Pqueue1 filename. Queue1 is the name of my print 
queue. I have an hp400 printer and am using magicfilter as its filter. Note the 
above procedure works just fine. However, when I try lpr filename to the 
embosser, I get put back into a shell prompt. No messages to stdout, absolutely 
nothing. I have made sure everything is owrking hardware wise by even switching 
the cables around on my parallel switch, just to make sure none of the ports on 
that are bad. And it appears that all the parports on the switch appear to be 
working. One thing I did not do is check syslog for any messages related to the 
lpr command issued to the embosser. Perhaps I should check on that? 
> When I get some time, I might try to see if my blazer works with my linux box.
> 
> I am however somewhat reluctant to try that out, since I have my print printer 
> working just fine, and I don't want to go messing things up.
> 
> If I can be assured that my ink printer settings won't get messed up, I'll try 
> the blazer out when I get a chance.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:22:18PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi all. I recently upgraded to 2.4.20, and have since tested printing
> > functionality. As usual, the ink printer works. Note that I do not receive
> > the "lp0: compatibility mode" message. However the embosser still doesn't
> > work. I have made sure more than once that the port configs are set
> > properly in the blazer's options, and that lpd is started. I have actually
> > had to emboss something here for a while but couldn't because I can't send
> > jobs to the blazer from this machine. Does anyone perhaps know anyone else
> > who has this working on a Linux system? I have really run out of ideas on
> > what to do, considering that I have a winblows laptop that can emboss to
> > it successfully just fine using duxbury. But I hate Winblows and want to
> > avoid using it! Thanks for any help on this, and sorry for the repeated
> > posts. I have honestly run out of ideas on this one.
> > 
> > May you code in the power of the source,
> > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> > 
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