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- From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
- Subject: Re: How to use a non-DEC postscript printer???
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:51:00 GMT
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- In article <35.2b41ce0c@wrglex>, l_seibert@wrglex writes...
- >
- >I have a problem to use a postscript printer as a postscript printer under VMS.
- >The printer is a Brother HL-10PS, it is connected serial with the DECserver200
- >and everything is working fine as long as I use it as a text printer, but as
- >soon as I send a postscript file or I connect it to a queue created with DEC's
- >CPS-software, it doesn't print anything. If it is connected to a text queue,
- >the printer tells me IGNORE DATA. If it is connected to a CPS queue, it takes
- >sometime and then the queue is stalled.
- >
-
- The CPS software inquires from the printer as to what kind of printer it is.
- If its not recognized, it assumes DEC LN03R (Scriptprinter), and utilizes
- vendor and model specific knowledge in communicating to the "LN03R". Of
- course, if its not an LN03R, that's likely not to work. DEC is comming out
- with a new software package which might expand into knowlegde of non-DEC
- printers, but I haven't seen any promises as to what will be supported.
-
- Various third party vendors offer solutions to these problems, I don't have the
- names of the top of my head, but your Brother and/or DEC salesmen might
- actualy know.
-
- Connecting the printer in Poscript mode to a text queue isn't likely to work
- unless you find another way to add the necessary handshaking and Postscript
- commands to your printouts prior to queueing them, which brings you back to
- needing software. Typically text queues are one-way communications (except for
- flow control via XON/XOFF or modem signals), but often Postscript does a bit
- of two way (like CPS's inquiring what kind of printer).
-
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- Bob Koehler | Any illusion to these opinions being other
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