USB (DOT4) Printers & OS4.1 **Testing in Progress**

@Raziel

I suspect that's more the fault of netprinter/lpr than it is the driver.

@Chris

Uhh, you mean even IF we get a gutenprint driver i'm still stuck with the crashy netprinter/lpr solution?

Bah, that would be a drawback

@Raziel

Not necessarily, but it seems likely. If the lpr stuff is crashing, it'll crash no matter what data you send through it, so changing the driver is unlikely to make a difference.

Having said that, I'm surprised both netprinter *and* lpr.device are crashing for you. I found lpr.device to be quite unstable but netprinter generally didn't crash (it didn't work either, but I think that was my router causing problems as I had various other network glitches which seem to have gone since I've replaced it)

Well, netprinter is a little more forgiving, but i end up having to use the same method for printing as with lpr (raw, port 9100) and both choke when i send more than one page...or even at the first one, depends how the weather is probably

@ terminills

any news

@ terminills

I see you have had some issues with others over at aw.net but please tell us here why the sudden change in gutenprint development??
If it's motivation I'm sure we can muster up a decent bounty between all camps as the printing substructure desperately needs overhauling for all Amiga/like OS's.

@328gts

As I've had time to clear my head I decided to continue with this. :)

@terminills

Phew! I was getting worried.

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thank goodness

Great news!

that's great! :)

Happy to know that project will continue

Very good news terminills
Thx for your work

@terminills

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Thanks!

@terminills,

That is good news and is much appreciated.

oooo what could this be for? "ESC 01 @EJL [sp] ID\r\n" ;)

It is useful to return some information but does it return something?

@terminills

I think it's something to do with getting print job information. PJL is for that, anyway. I'd not heard of EJL - at a guess it's getting a print job ID.

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it returns printer id ;)

@EJL ID\r
MFG:EPSON;
CMD:ESCPL2,BDC;
MDL:[printer model];
CLS:PRINTER;
DES:EPSON [printer model];
\f

well it doesn't do a whole hell of a lot yet... but the first gutenprint linked printer driver(AOS version to follow). ;D