russ@PSYCH.TORONTO.EDU (Russell Sutherland Dean's Office) (04/01/91)
I have been having problems getting a new QMS-410 printer hooked up to our local SUN3/280 computer. The printer is actually attached to an Annex II terminal server over the serial line. I have used the QMS-810 for 3 years now by simplying setting the baudrate to 9600 and selecting XON/XOFF protocol. All postscript jobs get passed to the spooler that simply tacks on a CNTRL-D and fires the file to the printer. After experimenting with the 410 for a few hours it seems that batch mode does not work in quite the same manner. (I have the serial port set to PS only mode). Can anyone tell me the proper set up for postscript only code over the serial port of the QMS-410? -- Russell Sutherland Bell: (416)-978-5140 Office of the Dean Uucp: ...{utzoo,utgpu}!utas!russ Faculty of Arts and Science Internet: russ@artsci.utoronto.ca
vmd@aloft.att.com (V Mark Dennis) (04/06/91)
In article <9104021823.AA17816@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> russ@PSYCH.TORONTO.EDU (Russell Sutherland Dean's Office) writes: >I have been having problems getting a new QMS-410 printer >hooked up to our local SUN3/280 computer. The printer is actually >attached to an Annex II terminal server over the serial line. >-- > >Russell Sutherland Bell: (416)-978-5140 >Office of the Dean Uucp: ...{utzoo,utgpu}!utas!russ >Faculty of Arts and Science Internet: russ@artsci.utoronto.ca > I configured my printers using this code: %! executive serverdict begin 0 exitserver executive statusdict begin 0 setsoftwareiomode statusdict begin 25 9600 87 setsccbatch end quit On your Test Configuration Page, the Serial RS-232C line will look likes this: PostScript, 9600, none, 8, 1, XON/XOFFtpo I got the '87' from QMS. I have 3 410s and they work most of the time, but a few times a week, they will each either hang or kill a job. When the printer hangs, I get this message: Emulator trap - core dumped. Also, there is a .nfsXXX file in the spool directory. When a job gets killed, I get this: ERROR: printer is idle, giving up!. This message comes from transcript. I believe the other comes from the OS. I think I have a communications problem here. QMS is supposedly checking into it for us. Mark Dennis att!aloft!vmd PS: The RS232 implementation varies from sun to sun model.