[comp.sys.novell] Printer Woes with 3.11

tracy@wolf.ccs.uky.edu (Tracy Gust) (06/25/91)

'ello All,

I am working with two Novell 3.11 networks here at the University.  Each
network has several Apple Laserwriter IINT's.  The Macs and IBMs on
the networks are Ethernetted, and all printjobs to the Laserwriters
are directed to queues (even Mac jobs go to the queues). We are getting
postscript errors from IBM WordPerfect and Macintosh PageMaker.  The
errors come and go, and I have yet to find a way to reproduce them.  
WordPerfect produces an "OffendingCommand:m_" or "OffendingCommand: ;",
and several other offending commands that don't make much sense.  The
timeout has been set to 20 seconds.  The DOS workstations have 2 mg
of memory.  For PageMaker, the error is always "OffendingCommand:AldusDict2".
This error is resolved if the PageMaker document is sent directly to the
printer instead of the queues.  Unfortunately, when this is done the
document cannot be tracked via Pconsole.  

I'm sure there are many others who run WordPerfect and Mac PageMaker over
their Novell networks.  What kind of print def settings did you find to
be best?  Is the timeout we use too short? Do the DOS machines lack the
memory to do the job correctly? I would also like to hear from those
who run Mac PageMaker directly off the server.

thanks!

tracy
  
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