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
