[comp.periphs.printers] QMS-PS 410, Transcript and TOPS?

laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee) (12/12/90)

We're having a problem with a QMS-PS 410 connected via localtalk and a
FastPath 4 to a Sun. Using TOPS stuff on the Sun we have been printing to
a LaserWriter II NT sucessfully for over a year.  Recently, we added the
QMS, but we are experiencing intermittent faults.

TOPS replaces Transcript's pscomm with tops_comm to talk across the FastPath,
and it seems to be this which is finding the problem.  On the Laserwriter we
get log entries like this:

TOPS  SUNix  Network Print Utility Version 0.90.0    11/9/87
Copyright (C) Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1987.
tops_comm: PAPOpen completed.
tops_comm: Laser Writer <LaserWriter II NT> status: <status: idle>
tops_comm:  printing completed.
tops_comm: returning 0


And on the QMS, entries like this:
TOPS  SUNix  Network Print Utility Version 0.90.0    11/9/87
Copyright (C) Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1987.
tops_comm: papWpeer returned: -3107
tops_comm: Error -1 on completion of PAPOpen
tops_comm: papWpeer returned: -3107
tops_comm: Error -1 on completion of PAPOpen
tops_comm: papWpeer returned: -3107
tops_comm: Error -1 on completion of PAPOpen
...

Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?  Can anyone from Sun (or
is it Sitka) shed any light?

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David Lau-Kee, Canon Research Centre Europe,
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