[comp.windows.ms] Novell 3.11, Windows 3.0, HP Laserjet Series II

laughner@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Tom Laughner) (06/01/91)

Has anyone experienced problems printing Windows documents on Novell?
We're printing documents through a print server.  The first pages print
fine and then the printer starts spewing out garbage.  The printer
driver is dated 9/20/90.

Any help would be appreciated.

karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) (06/01/91)

In article <1991May31.192834.15274@news.nd.edu> laughner@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Tom Laughner) writes:
>Has anyone experienced problems printing Windows documents on Novell?
>We're printing documents through a print server.  The first pages print
>fine and then the printer starts spewing out garbage.  The printer
>driver is dated 9/20/90.
>
We've had problems on and off, and I've discovered a few things.  We are
using a LaserJet III, and that was part of the problem.  The main thing
that causes printing from Windows to the network appears to be (on our
network anyway) the use of DOSED.  This is a program that maintains a
history of keystrokes at the DOS prompt. 

When printing from Excel and Project, this definitely needs to be remarked
out of the autoexec file.  Excel also objects to the use of the
HP ProCollection Font Cartridge.  We were also getting glitches on the
Project sheets that were taken care of by adding /NT to the capture.  Also,
printing as byte stream and not as text is important.

Hope this helps.


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boerner@ut-emx.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner) (06/17/91)

>In article <1991May31.192834.15274@news.nd.edu>, laughner@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Tom Laughner) writes:
>> Has anyone experienced problems printing Windows documents on Novell?
>> We're printing documents through a print server.  The first pages print
>> fine and then the printer starts spewing out garbage.  The printer
>> driver is dated 9/20/90.
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated.

I've found that using the OS2.LPT[12] ports will reliably print when
printing to an HP LaserJet III EXCEPT when using Adobe Type Manager.
(More on this in another posting.).

Brendan