crh@APOLLO.ENG.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Charlotte Hawley) (07/18/90)
After three attempts with hotline, I am begging for help from the net. Since installing 10.2 (using UNIX 4.3) on my DN3500, I can't get my postscript printer (Apple IINTX) to work. I am running lpd and using Adobe postscript since I have a mixed environment of Unix workstations. At 10.1, everything worked fine. The problem is that it will print 3-4 pages at most and then the printer quits. The error log has the following error: %%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: > 214 ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% (the number 214 changes in each message). I moved the printer to a Sun workstation, and the printer works fine. I then moved the printer from the 3500 to a new DN2500, and got the error again. I installed recommended patches with no results. After trying everything I can imagine, I finally lowered the baud rate to 1200, and the printer works on both the DN2500 and the DN3500. It's driving everybody crazy, and I get double "whammy". Any suggestions with be most appreciated. Charlotte 614/292-2902
schmid@jellosub.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid) (07/19/90)
We had the same error message when connecting a laserprinter to an Apollo some time ago, but now we have it running (LaserWriter IINTX, DN3500,SR10.2, prmgr/prsvr). The fact that lowering the baud rate makes your printer work leads me to think that the reason for your problem seems to be the configuration of your serial port e.g. the handshaking protocol. If you're using 'software'-handshaking via XON/XOFF characters (default for the LaserWriter IINTX) try the following: /com/tctl -default // resets sio1 /com/tctl -nosync -insync // input sync This lets the printer controll the synchronization of the transmission (assuming that you use sio1 and 9600 Baud). If you don't have an AEGIS environment, you'll probably have to use the UNIX command 'stty', but I don't know much about that (though I'm not an AEGIS fan). ________________________________________________________________________ Georg Schmid, ISD University of Stuttgart, W.-Germany email: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.110.2) voice: 0(049-)711-685-2053 fax: 0(049-)711-685-3706 ________________________________________________________________________