[comp.sys.apollo] sr 10 xon/xoff problem

bag@tech.perpk.nt.com (Bill Gutknecht) (03/26/91)

>     We have a Laserwriter II NT connected to a network of Apollos running    
>  sr 10.2 (patch level PSK5) and we are using aegis print services. Everything
>  is fine except when a large postscript file is sent to the printer.  The 
>  printer acknowledges that it is receiving something, but doesn't generate
>  any output.


How long did you wait?  I've sent files from 600K-1000K to our LaserWriter II
and have had no problem.  Of course I've had to wait 15-20 minutes for it to
be processed.  Bitmaps/Grayscales seem to take the longest.  Consider the fact
that you are tranfering data at 9600BPS!

Our line characteristics are identical.

rn@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) (03/28/91)

In article <9103261431.AA00444@tech.perpk.nt.com>, bag@tech.perpk.nt.com (Bill Gutknecht) writes:
|> >     We have a Laserwriter II NT connected to a network of Apollos running    
|> >  sr 10.2 (patch level PSK5) and we are using aegis print services. Everything
|> >  is fine except when a large postscript file is sent to the printer.  The 
|> >  printer acknowledges that it is receiving something, but doesn't generate
|> >  any output.
|> 
|> 
|> How long did you wait?  I've sent files from 600K-1000K to our LaserWriter II
|> and have had no problem.  Of course I've had to wait 15-20 minutes for it to
|> be processed.  Bitmaps/Grayscales seem to take the longest.  Consider the fact
|> that you are tranfering data at 9600BPS!

I've had similar problems. Our laser has an lcd display which comes up `IGNORE
DATA' part of the way through. Check the first line of your PostScript file
and remove any references to EPSF (ie: just leave the %!) - this sometimes
fixes it. If you were using lpr you would almost certainly be coming up
against the 132 chars/line limit imposed by lpr. If your prsvr has the wrap
option set to `off' it will truncate lines at the right margin, which also
could be the source of your problem. It could be a line problem, but we've
never had any xon/xoff problems. (That's for a Brother HL8-PS though)

bob
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