Thanks for looking and finding everything I found about the RICOH Printer SP- 5100N and how it does not printer. Indeed you are correct about in VPS having to turn off ECHO/STATUS if you use their SOCKET interface. But then if it is disabled, then you loose any benefit of the intent to do checkpointing of print along the way. In fact, this method of printing is worse than using the old LPD protocol. At least with LPD one gets a count at the end of the transmission to check to learn if the printer got it all.
Contacted some sources in the know to learn that the all RICOH printers indeed do support bidirectional printing. But I learned the RICOH SP-5100N is not really a RICOH printer but a "cheap" printer made up to be look like a RICOH printer. The questions were met with a response something like, "you mean to tell me someone is actually using a mainframe to print to one of those cheap printers. We never thought it could be done". Not sure what is so special about at least doing LPD printing as a last resort. Now my task is to try to figure out which are real RICOH printers and which are cheap printers made up to look like RICOH. Or maybe if the user needs a cheap printer with no need of checkpointing on the mainframe, then cheap maybe OK. So thanks for the confirmation. 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
