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- From: mikec@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael CIAVARELLA)
- Subject: Re: QMS-3200 / QMS-2000 & tcp/ip
- Message-ID: <9236418.17982@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <DAVE.92Dec22131718@grunge.auspost.com.au> <avalon.725082441@coombs>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:23:25 GMT
- Lines: 101
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- avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
-
- >dave@grunge.auspost.com.au (Dave Cole) writes:
- >>The place where I work has a number of QMS-3200 and QMS-2000 printers, these
- >>babies have a TCP/IP interface; you can open ftp and telnet sessions with
- >>them.
-
- Yep. They're a lovely piece of equipment :) It's nice when the
- bottleneck in a major print job isn't a serial line......
-
-
- >>Has anyone out there tried to talk directly to these printers via TCP/IP?
- >>If yes, are you willing to share your hard won experience in the form of
- >>source code? I would be a Happy Boy if you do help me.
-
- Distributed with the TCP/IP option is a tape containing BSD and SYSV-ish
- software to print directly to these printers...it may be worth giving
- QMS a call at some stage to get the latest version of the software...
-
-
- >Its not very hard at all...you can send any sort of job via ftp or to
- >port 35 I have found...
-
- From memory, I think port 35 was a UDP service....Darren will be able
- to confirm that though.
-
-
- >But as yet...they still dont talk back...so pstack and print and all those
- >other wonderful postscript dont work although I believe you can use them
- >over a serial connection to the printer or when using "executive" mode
- >over the serial line.
-
- Yep. On a standard QMS PS-2000, you can "talk" directly to the
- Postscript interpreter only through the LocalTalk and serial interfaces.
- The parallel interface is unidirectional and therefore cannot support
- interactive use of the interpreter :-( There is no support for
- interactive sessions over TCP/IP. I'm not sure, but I *think* that
- one of the other communications boards (Novell?) does allow interactive
- use of the interpreter....
-
- subtle hint to QMS if they're out there somewhere... ;-)
-
- (1) Please please please PLEASE add password support
- or some sort of authentication on the Ports 25/35.
-
- (2) Please please please add some way of reliably getting
- statistics from the printer (eg. pages printed,
- current interface activity) without having to go to
- the trouble of a telnet connection. For example,
- sending a query packet to, say, port X would return
- a single answer packet.
-
- (3) TCP is two-way....a link to the interpreter
- would be a Nice Thing.
-
- (4) It would be nice if the TCP option could mail things
- to an administrator once a day, but given the size of
- the code that would be needed for this....a good compromise
- is Suggestion (2) with some program(s) to poll the printer
- at regular intervals......
-
- eg. {mymachine:1} qmsstatus myprinter -paper
- Trying 123.213.12.23.....
- Upper Bin: Empty
- Lower Bin: OK
- Option Bin: OK
-
- {mymachine:2} qmsstatus myprinter -lastjob
- Trying 123.213.12.23.....
- Type: HP/GL
- Pages: A4(10)
- Pages: A3(2)
- Pages: Letter(1)
- Author: Joe Bloggs
- Creator: <unknown>
- Time: 35.3seconds
-
- {mymachine:3} qmsstatus myprinter -maintenance
- Pages: 1234445
- Toner: Low
- Jams: None
-
- If by chance a QMS ROM-coder reads this, then I'm quite willing to
- spend some time discussing useful mods. to the tcp/ip board.....
-
-
- Later,
-
- Mike.
-
-
- Disclaimers: I don't work for any manufacturers mentioned above.
- I'm just a happy user of the products mentioned, though I
- could be happier :)
-
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