laser-lovers@uw-beaver (03/23/85)
From: KB13%CMU-CC-TE@CMU-CC-TE
Anybody with experience spooling a QMS laser printer from a
VMS Vax (anybody else running a VMS Vax)? If so, please send me a
message. Our setup will be a public printer and I have some concerns
about how to prevent people from accidentally or intentionally leaving
the printer in a funny state for the next person. I'd like to avoid
designing and building a filter/spooler if someone else has already
done it.
Thanks.
-Ken Burner
-------laser-lovers@uw-beaver (03/26/85)
From: Mark Johnson <MHJohnson@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Well, I can certainly see a number of problems arising if you get a malicious user screwing up the printer for the next person. We are running with VMS 3.7 & our QMS is on a DMF-32 printer port. Occasionally the printer does get brain damaged. In particular, overloading its font memory, aborting jobs while printing, and hitting the initialize button all rank up there for making a mess of the printer. I would really like to see a V4 style printer spooler for that printer. I have a number of reasons including reprinting pages that were jammed (& burned occasionally!) in the printer, true selection by page, and a more fool proof interface for the printer. Overall, what I have now is fine. It is infrequent that we have serious problems unless the printer itself is marginal. That is when EVERYBODY thinks they know how to re-initialize the printer, reload the fonts, etc. & I have to stop the queue, delete the multiple font load requests, initialize the printer, load the fonts ONCE, and then restart the queue. Good luck with your printer. Perhaps after we get V4.x up on our system we will look at the more general problem. --Mark <MHJohnson @ HI-MULTICS>
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (03/27/85)
From: allegra!packard!harvard!bu-cs!dd@uw-beaver.arpa (Dan Dill) We use Talaris' packaging of the QMS 1200, specifically to run TeX and MASS-11. What Talaris has done is to provide a modified DEC print symbiont which imbeds proper initialization code as part of the flag page. It works always -- each user always gets the printer in the same default state. The only problem is that you always have to print a flag page. The people at Talaris are Barry Ferris (V.P. Software, I think) and Cal Burgart (Pres): P.O. Box 261580 San Diego, CA 92126 619/587-0787 We also use the Able VMZ/LP DMF32-style DMA parallel interface. Hope this is of use. Dan Dill Chemistry Department Boston University 617/353-4277 BITNET: dan @ buchma CSNET: dd%bu-cs@csnet-relay.ARPA