lpt0 always busy

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:56, stanley jobson wrote:
> > It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the
> > printer  is very very special..
> >
> > What sort of printer is it?
>
> its a canon lbp 460 - ugly gdi printer :)

Hmm, well lots of printers these days are raster only..
I'd  recommend buying an Epson since they are usually more functional than 
Canon in !Win32.

> > You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY
> > for the  open.
>
> one can print using lpt0.ctl? - thx 4 the hint - i'll check this ...

Well, I'm pretty sure you can.
AFAIK the only difference is that lpt0.ctl ignores BUSY on open so lptcontrol 
can use it.

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