[wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE Printer Issues (PROBLEM IDENTIFIED)

[Tom Rhodes]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:22:24 -0500
Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> Benjamin Slavin wrote:
> > Well, sir, I think we've found the problem.
> > 
> > It prints terribly slowly, but at 4k/sec, this is to be expected.
> > 
> > Now, to get lpd to limit itself to that speed. I assume that, since it
> > spools the job to disk before printing, this buffer needs to sit between
> > LPD and the printer, not between the filter and LPD. I attempted to hack
> > together a simple shell script to do this, thinking that by setting
> > lp=/path/to/script, the script would take the data to be printed via
> > STDIN, but found that it just wrote over the file instead.
> > 
> > Any recommendations for this last step?
> 
> Possibly point the output filter (of=) in /etc/printcap.  That should
> cause it to treat it like a script instead of writing to it as a file.
> 
> I'm not sure if the timing is such that it will work or not, though.
> 
> Additionally, while this is a good workaround, there's obviously still
> a problem with the USB.  Did you manage to upgrade FreeBSD as Tom had
> suggested?
> 

Yes, I agree that this is a bug which should be looked over by
Josef (joe at FreeBSD.org), who is our USB developer.


-- 
Tom Rhodes