rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) (09/20/89)
Hello, I have posted this question twice in comp.lang.postscript over the past year or so, and nobody has said a word, so I'm widening the newgroups in hopes of hearing SOMETHING. Our DEC ScriptPrinter (LN03R) periodically goes to lunch. I believe it is caused by the Micrographix PS driver for Microsoft Windows, but I can't really be sure. The symptoms are that the printer will selectively print or not print jobs based on some unknown criteria, and small jobs seem to have better luck than larger. Then, somehow, it will come back, and everything will be fine. I figure that the 'persistent parameters' get changed nastily, because cycling the power has no affect. Jobs that work fine one day won't the next. It's terribly frustrating. So far, my only recourse (sp?) has been to be patient until it gets better. I am seriously considering taking out the PS board and looking for a battery to remove...but there's so many wires back there it's more than I look forward to. Has anybody seen ANYTHING like this? Please? The printer gets a lot of use from our vax and pcs, and my users (and myself) are getting fed up. Any comment at all would be appreciated. Except, "Never saw thet before." rob
jnp@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi (J|rgen N|rgaard) (10/01/89)
(Our configuration: DEC ScriptPrinter (LN03R) connected to UNIXes and VAXes through a LAT (?) - something that can be used for printer- connections. Gating from UNIXes goes via a DECStation) I've experienced something similar: When printing certain types of files the printer dies with 'ioerror' (the exact position in the file can be moved by inserting/removing comments) or 'syntaxerror' (at places where there (verifiable) are no syntax-errors (looks like a part of the input "disappears" so that f.ex. strings are seen as commands). If the file is split into smaller parts they *always* print; the split is purely textual, so eventuel PostScript errors would not go away. Both the printer and the server (this LAT thing) claim to be using XON/XOFF, no parity and same number of databits. -- -- -- | Regards, J|rgen N|rgaard ('|' is '\o{}' in \LaTeX{}) | | e-mail: jnp@tele.nokia.fi or pedersen%tnclus.dnet@tele.nokia.fi | -- telephone: <..>-358-0-511-5671 --