D.I.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk (Iain Wood) (11/28/90)
We are trying to set up lwsrv so that we can print from Macs to a
laser-writter II attatched to a Sun 3. Occasionaly it works, more
often we get a cryptic mail message back from the printer deamon to
the effect that "your job could not be printed" and the printer log
file on the Sun says something like:
Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored
I have not been able to reproduce the circumstances that cause it to
change from working to broken or vice-versa. In fact it seems to
change even when nothing relevant has been done to the system!
Any ideas what I might try would be much appreciated, as our only
other printing option involves climbing a lot of stairs....
Iain
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Iain Wood | E-mail D.I.Wood@uk.ac.newcastle
Newcastle University | phone 091 222 8237
--------------------------------------------------------------doug@wapsy.uwa.oz.au (Doug Robb) (11/28/90)
> From: newcastle.ac.uk!shotton!ndiw@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Iain Wood) > Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU > Subject: Is lwsrv broken? > Message-Id: <1990Nov27.161742.11475@newcastle.ac.uk> > We are trying to set up lwsrv so that we can print from Macs to a > laser-writter II attatched to a Sun 3. Occasionaly it works, more > often we get a cryptic mail message back from the printer deamon to > the effect that "your job could not be printed" and the printer log > file on the Sun says something like: > Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored Yes I've seen this before. The laserprep file must be massaged by a program called "prepfix", I can send you a copy if you can't get hold of it locally. Although lwsrv works well i still have a problem when a text file is printed right after a graphics picture. (eg print directory of mac and while the laser is processing that, print a text file). The text file comes out backtofront and inside out. On the other hand if I wait a minute or so after the directory has printed and then print the text file its ok. It seems to me the laser printer (both AstTurboLAser/PS and TI Omni) need time to reset themselves or alternatively the procset (67) is not right in some way. I don't know why I;m the only one that seems to have this problem though! doug@wapsy.psy.uwa.oz