todd@narnia.ecs.rpi.edu (09/26/89)
I have been struggling to get an Imagen laser printer to properly talk with a DECstation 3100 through a DEC terminal server. The printer software came with the printer and worked fine with a VAX 780 running 4.3BSD and a serial line. The symptoms: A single short file prints fine. A long file starts out OK, then gets garbled. If several short files are in the queue, the first one will print fine; the latter ones are garbled (assuming anything comes out at all). (Note: The Imagen using the IMpress printer language, rather than raw ascii...) Several of us think that perhaps some sort of flow control problem is at work. I have set the terminal server port to use flow control, disable flow control, etc., only to get the same results. (Only XON/XOFF flow control makes sense in our configuration). I have also tried various settings of the flags in the printcap entry. Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong? -- R. Lindsay Todd, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Internet: todd@narnia.ecs.rpi.edu