[mod.computers.laser-printers] Talaris Font Manager

EILEEN@BCVAX3.BITNET (07/29/86)

We recently had our QMS Lasergrafix 1200 upgraded to a Talaris, running
version 2.9 of the firmware. The printer hangs off a terminal port of one
of our VAX 11/780s (we have 4 running VMS 4.3 under a cluster
configuration.) We purchased a proportional font library from Talaris and a
product called the Font Manager which performs the downloading and deleting
of fonts automatically.

The problem we are having is the following: when we try to download and
print samples of a large number of fonts, the printer dies and we get an
FF (system failure) on the printer's controller. We've tried lowering the
linespeed to 4800 and we've run tests on the memory with no success. Also,
the problem does not always happen at the same spot in the file we're
trying to print.

Any ideas?

Eileen Farrell  (eileen@bcvax3.arpa)