On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 12:25 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:41:44PM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
> I have an ongoing problem with one of my clients' printers. It's an HP
> laserjet 5. It is connected to an FC1 workstation parallel.
In my experience, often printer problems can be traced to the firmware
-- does the manufacturer provide newer firmware for this model? If so
it would definitely be worth trying that first of all.
> I've replaced the FC1 box twice, the printer once, and the printer cable
> twice.
Have you tried connecting the printer to an FC2 machine?
> E [18/Aug/2004:13:01:25 -0500] ReadClient() 5 IPP Read Error!
>
> I see this when the printer gets disabled. So what is a "5 IPP read
> error?"
This means that it was expecting to be able to read IPP data from the
other machine, but for some reason could not.
> On the FC2 server, I have a similar situation, where a job will just
> hang going out the parallel port to an HP 4050 right in the middle of a
> job.
Is that connected directly to the FC2 server?
Yes. It is connected directly to the FC2 server. I switched to
interrupt driven on the parallel port on the FC2 box and have not heard
anything as to whether it helped.
On the FC1 box, I switched to cups-lpd and it seems to have resolved the
issue.
-Steve