My okidata okipage 6e printer won't print

The OKIPAGE 6e printer supports PCL (The OKIPAGE 4w, 4wPlus, 6w and 8w
printers are Windows only.) If you get just a blinking LED, the
probable reason is that it is not being set to PCL mode before sending
the PCL data. (The OKIPAGE 6e also supports 'Hiper-W' mode). You can
do that by adding the sequence " %-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL" at
the start of the job, where the square character is an escape character
(0x1b).

Hope this helps,
Alan



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Is this perhaps a Windows only printer? I think it might be .. since it is
Oki PAGE .. I believe it uses a Windows GDI driver to create the output. Can
you boot in straight DOS, not DOS shell, and use the PRN command and it will
print? If it wont print then ... then you may have a printer that needs
Windows as a host to actually print.

Hmmm.
Have you loaded/installed a parallel printer driver.
Or try to set you lpt mode to SPP.

maybe it helps.
CU
HORK

Sorry for not being specific. The blinking was slow and was due to the printer
recieving data. I did wait for the warmup cycle to be completed before
attempting to print. My printer works fine under win 98 (both as an okipage 6e
and as an hp 4).
I tried the above settings, it
still won't print.
Any additional help would be appreciated

Yosef

1. Try printing to the printer under Windows, if you have it
available, to rule out a hardware problem.

2. Could you please be more specific about the blinking? Has
the printer finished its warmup cycle? Is it in the non-blinking
light stage before you attempt to print? Is the blinking fast or
slow? Slow is about once per second, and indicates that the
printer is receiving data. Fast blinking is noticeably more than
once per second, and indicates a problem. For me, the most
common problem has been the out-of-paper condition. Other than
that, I've had one paper-jam and a couple of instances of my not
having closed the paper drawer completely.

I used the Red Hat Linux Print System Manager to configure my
printer under RH5.1 and RH6.0. Here's what I used to get it
running:

Name: lp
Spool Directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp
File Limit in Kb: 0
Printer Device: /dev/lp0
Input Filter: *auto* - LaserJet4
Supress Headers is checked.

On the Filter screen:
Printer Type: HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series
Resolution: 300x300
Paper Size: letter
Color Depth: default
Printing Options: 1 page per output page
Margins: 18 pts for each.

Gary Kahn