USB printing mangles printjob :-(

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jun 5 03:17:00 PDT 2003


While testing my dads HP 880C printer, I found out that our USB printing
mangles printjobs.

I ran the "colorcir.ps" file through ghostscript with the hpijs driver
set to output for the 880C and saved the result in a file.

If I send that file to the printer via the parallel port, it prints
perfectly.  If I send it via USB/ulpt there are corrupted bytes in
the job which mess up the printout in various ways.

I don't have time to hunt this down.

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