> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 11 07:48:26 2000
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:53:27 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Lars-Gunnar Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: LPRng: Summery of Tektronix Phaser 560 info
>
> I've been reading the LPRng mailing lists for a couple of months and
> a lot of HOWTOs and other documentation but without succeeding in a
> good installation of the Tektronix Phaser 560.
Sigh... I will have to confess my very private closet perversion:
I like the Phaser 560 quality. As for its network connectivity
and mananagement... Ummm... well... I cannot say anything good
about it. But the output is REALLY nice... Sigh... And several
other folks here agree. So we put up with the 'once a week'
problems.
Now as you suspect, when I have something that I use myself and
I have problems, it gets my very own personal treatment. And I
still cannot make this thing work reliably.
>
> I've a SPARCstation 20 with Solaris 2.7 as a print server running
> latest versions of LPRng and ifhp. I've managed to use the standard
> LPR protocol but not the Appsocket protocol.
You MUST use the appsocket protocol. The 'connection' termination
is critical to getting this thing to reset itself to a 'fairly known'
state.
Even with Appsocket we see the thing lock up for no reasonable or
predictible reason. We even firewalled it off on its very own
network and only TCP/IP to it and it still had problems about once
a week. We gave up.
>
> The latest error messages is that the connection is refused on the printer.
Yep. The thing has gone by-by. Sulking. Wants to be burped.
You need to manually reset it.
We know THAT one only too well.
>
> I would like to hear from users of LPRng/ifhp and Tektronix Phaser
> 560 who has succeeded in the installation.
Don't get your hopes raised.
>
> We also experience problems with users printing from Microsoft Word
> with different kind of images inside their documents. These problems
> most often occurs on the Tektronix printer.
You will probably find that they are using binary images. Set the
'tbcp' option for the printer. This, however, does not seem to
solve the problem. Some times after a job locks up, if you do a 'lpc redo'
(assuming the job is still in the queue), the job runs fine.
This had led to screaming and shrieking, frothing and foaming, cursing
and yelling by the various staff members.
I was also a little upset. I can't sleep with all that noise.
>
> We would also like the Unix users to be able to use the -Z option for
> selecting trays, selecting different printer resolutions and to set
> the option QuickCollate on or off.
>
> Please give me some advice and I'll follow up next week.
Prozac. One for you, and one for the users.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Lars-Gunnar Persson
> System Administrator
>
> Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
> Address: Edvard Griegs vei 3a, N-5059 Bergen, NORWAY
> Phone: +47 55 29 72 88, Fax: +47 55 20 00 50
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web: www.nrsc.no
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
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