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- Number: A1TH083190U542
- Subject: Hints on Installing a Plotter with NetWare
- Date: January 24, 1991
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: When plotting, customers need to keep the following in mind:
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- 1. Make sure you have all the latest PSERVER files.
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- 2. In most cases you need to NPRINT to the plotter. There
- is no interaction with the workstation that sent the
- job to the printer. You may or may not be able to
- spool the job with CAPTURE. If you are having problems
- with CAPTURE, you need to NPRINT.
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- 3. Make sure you use the NB and NT flag in NPRINT or
- CAPTURE.
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- 4. If garbage is printing on the plotter, you may have to
- go into PRINTCON and set up the job using byte stream
- mode, then try NPRINT or CAPTURE.
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- 5. If you are still not printing after following the steps
- above, then you need to test your plotter in the DOS
- environment. Boot up DOS on the machine that you have
- the plotter attached to. Print to the plotter without
- NetWare running.
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- a. If it works with DOS, you may still have some
- printer hardware problems or incompatibilities.
- Most plotters use hand shaking to verify that a
- computer is there. Novell does not support full
- hand shaking, it only looks for on-line or
- off-line. The pinout on the plotter side may have
- to be modified for NetWare to trick the plotter
- into thinking a computer is there all the time.
- The pinout computer side may also have to be
- modified to receive the buffer-full signal as
- off-line.
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- b. This can also be caused by a buffer overflow on
- the plotter. If you are using an HP Draftmaster,
- then turn "Pen Sort" off and check to make sure
- "HARDWIRE" is set to off.
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- 7. Try putting a serial printer on the same port and see
- if it will print.
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- 8. When using RPRINTER for remote plotting, make sure that
- you don't have any IRQ, Port, or RAM memory address
- conflicts. (Look under Remote Printing in your NetWare
- manual.)
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- (X) This information was verified by Engineering.
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