Brian,
This is a problem with the LPD support on your jetdirect card. If
you'll reconfigure the printer to use direct port 9100 printing, you
won't have the problem. See the micro-FAQ in the micro-HOWTO that
you used to install the enhanced printing system from
hp.sourceforge.net.
Other feedback would be greatly appreciated. You can submit
enhancement requests and bugs directly to the gnulpr project on
sourceforge.
Thanks!
Pat Sandfort
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian J. Murrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 8:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: Too many -Z options stalls printing
>
>
> My appologies if you see this more than once but my previous attempts
> to post seem to have failed (the first was due to not being
> subscribed, :-) but I was on the second attempt)
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I have just set up LPRng, all the neato PPD stuff and whatnot on my
> RedHat 7.0 system. Well the truth is "http://hp.sourceforge.net" did
> it for me. :-)
>
> I have an HP 4050 printer with the JetDirect card and everything seems
> to be working just great, until I start to use too many -Z options on
> the lpr command line. It would seem that if I use more than 5 of
> them, the spooler gets stuck and there is a "Worker" unspooling that
> goes to sleep in a read from the printer. The relevant processes:
>
> 16278 ? S 0:00 lpd Waiting
> 17668 ? S 0:00 \_ lpd (Server) 'lp'
> 17669 ? S 0:00 \_ lpd (Worker - Remote) 'lp'
>
> Any ideas how to remedy this (without specifying less -Z options :-)?
>
> Thanx,
> b.
>
> P.S. Here is a trace of the communication with the LPD server on the
> JetDirect card if it helps:
>
> lp
> 601 cfA653brian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
> Hbrian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
> Pbrian
> J/tmp/gpr-yjUP8O
> CA
> Abrian@brian-laptop+653
> D2001-02-12-11:06:59.006
> N/tmp/gpr-yjUP8O
> Qlp
> ZJCLEconomode:False,JCLFastRes:True,JCLResolution:600dpi,JCLHo
> ldKey:HoldKeyNone,JCLUser:UserSystem,JCLRetention:JCLRetention
> Off,HPHalftone:PrinterDefault,HPScalePatterns:Scale,HPPaperPol
> icy:PromptUser,Smoothing:True,HPCollate:False,HPwmLocation:Tru
> e,HPwmTextStyle:Medium,HPwmTextAngle:Deg45,HPwmFontSize:pt48,H
> PwmFont:HelveticaB,HPwmText:None,HPNup:OneUp,Duplex:None,Input
> Slot:Middle,PageSize:Letter
> N/tmp/gpr-yjUP8O
> fdfA653brian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
> UdfA653brian-laptop.dyn.us.mvd
>
>
> And that's it. The socket sits open and the "lpd (Worker - Remote)
> 'lp'" process sits in a read() call.
>
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