WEIRD printer problem

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Was our friend using one of these printers? Anyway, the point is D3/AP etc
must still be sending out a stream of trailing nulls at the end of a print
job; effectively the same as it did > 10 years ago....

If the nulls were not being sent, this thread would not even exist.

Given the nulls are generally erroroneous (or at least 2 in a row would
be...); perhaps the data stream should always have nulls stripped out as you
describe? Great if using o/s like Unix & Linux. Sucks if you are on
Windoze!!

Cheers

David
"Scott Ballinger" <scott.ballinger (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Hi David,

When we encountered this problem (like, 5 years ago? when did HP start
shipping the 8150?), it was specific to a new HP 8150 jet-direct
connected printer. There were many printers (parallel, serial, and
network) on the system, but only this one seemed to have the "nulls
problem." Maybe the problem is more printer-related than
interface-related? Interestingly, that same printer does not exibit
this problem since switching from SCO to Linux. Go figure. (lp vs
lpr?)

/Scott Ballinger
Pareto Corporation
Edmonds WA USA
206 713 6006

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Re: WEIRD printer problem - 07-13-2005 , 06:17 PM