dmccart@cadavr.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy ~) (02/25/89)
Hi. Recently my department has purchased a DataProducts LZR-1260
with multi-cassette sheet feeder, and there are a few things that I can't
find out about the thing that would be real handy to use.
We're using the Centronics parallel port on it, and according to
the Supplement that came with the printer, that means the output port
should be the 9-pin serial port. (The whole configuration looks like
printer -> parallel wire -> Xyplex print server -> Ethernet -> VAX 8530.)
However, I can't get any error messages to come out on the terminal I
hooked up to the 9-pin. I have this feeling that it's the baud rate but
I've tinkered randomly with the port settings more than I care to. So how
do I get the errors to output? If it means writing a program that's no
sweat either, but right now I don't even know what the problem is.
Also, I downloaded that Laser Doctor program and it went great!
The only thing that didn't work was the statusdict/product line (it prints
out "This printer is a running version 47.0 of Postscript.", so the
printer type just gets left out.) I added some of the options from the
DataProducts Supplement (hasfaceupstacker, ramsize, etc.) to the Doctor
in the form of
% set up fonts, etc. first
dostartpage {(Prints) show} {(Does not print) show)} ifelse
( a startup page) show
at the end and all I get is
<sp>a startup page
which is annoying. "dostartpage" is supposed to be boolean; I'm using
ifelse; *one* of the two options should be printing out.
The page count never shows up on the startup page either. It's like
it refuses to tell me anything about itself - its name, its page count,
the number of paper trays it has, etc.
Finally, is there a way to detect if the tray's out of paper?
What I'd like is something that would go
outofpaper
{ defaultpapertray 1 add 3 mod setdefaultpapertray }
if
where 'outofpaper' returns true if the current tray is out of paper.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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