acarlson%laurel@math.umass.edu (Adam Carlson) (06/08/90)
I have a pair of Sun 3/80's running SunOS 4.0.3 and an AST/Cammintonn Turbo Laser/PS-Plus 3 printer and I am having the following problem: When I print files over 3 or so pages in length, the printer starts dropping portions of the text. It will drop single characters to entire lines. When I cat > /dev/ttya it works fine no matter how big the file. I have tried numerous variations of princap file and printer communications settings including number of bits in character, stop bits, output delay characters vs. timing. I have also tried using different emulation modes. Nothing seems to work (although postscript is a little more reliable than other modes which may imply that shorter lines work better since postscript programs are often quite long, but have short lines, as opposed to long paragraphs before a carraige return???) Thanks in advance for your responses. Adam Carlson acarlson@laurel.math.umass.edu My apologies to people trying to send me mail to acarlson@laurel.cs.umass.edu, the address changed without my knowledge.