I found the user's guide to the Ricoh Aficio SP-5100N printer here: http://support.ricoh.com/bb_v1oi/pub_e/oi/0001030/0001030599/VG1868657en/G1868657en.pdf
The last section looks interesting. There's a built-in Web server in the printer, with a Web administrative user interface for configuring various parameters. Perhaps there's something buried in there. There's also a "fat client" Windows program called Set IP which can be used to configure printer settings, and that's available for download from Ricoh's Web site. And there's a menu option on the front panel to dump all the current network settings to a printed page. I would also check to see if there's a firmware update for this printer, just in case it's a known and corrected bug. But I also found this reference suggesting you can tell VPS/TCPIP to bypass the ECHO/STATUS check: http://www.barrcentral.com/help/beps/Common_Questions_for_BARRPRINT_TCP_IP.htm Scroll down a bit to the sample configuration file. Looks like it's TCPOPTS=00000020 to do that. But perhaps that's what you meant when you said you can get it to work by disabling bidirectional response. (I wasn't sure whether you're talking about LPD or JetDirect when you said that.) Have you tried the BIP PJL bidirectional reporting, to see if that works properly? That might work instead -- and provide more detailed printer error conditions back to z/OS anyway. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
