I run the VPS/TCPIP printing system on z/OS and am attempting to get printing working to RICOH laser printers. LPD printing works just fine but the preferred way of printing is using LRS's HP Sockets definition to usually Port 9100. This enables VPS to do such things as Check-pointing along the way. VPS Sockets printing needs the printer to support Bidirectional communication. I have a RICOH SP5100N Laser printer configured with Port 9100 enabled and can get it to print by disabling the bidirectional reponse the printer can give along the way.
The requirement is for the printer to respond to the ECHO/STATUS and it has been confirmed the print is making to the printer on 9100 but the printer is not responding with the ECHO/STATUS. I have been all over RICOH website and besides being difficult to search for problems, it has been little help. I GOOGLE’d everyway I can imagine to get some hits on anyone having the same problem. For now the printer is defined LPD and is working. But if, say, a 500 page report gets interrupted, then the report starts over from the beginning. All the configuration options for the printer itself have been reviewed, explored, etc. Has anyone encountered the problem with a RICOH Laser printers not responding to ECHO and what did you do to set it. My sense is it is a configuration option at the printer but have no idea which one would enable it. If you want to ask RICOH a question like this, get out the credit card. An interesting strategy because if I can not get bidirectional to work, my recommendation to the customer will be buy some other manufacturers printers. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
