> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 28 16:53:04 2001 > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:56:36 +0100 > From: Fernando Blanco Marcilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: LPRng: Problems with the pagecount in HP-4100 printers. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Este es un mensaje multipartes en formato MIME. > > --Boundary_(ID_nTd/iZiVsjOPN6RMhrMNUQ) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > After using for some time ifhp with different models of HP printers > without any problem on page counting, with the HP-4100 the usual > mechanism for counting pages does not work correctly. > > It seems that the process does not wait in the Do_waitend routine for > job to be completed. Normally it count 0 pages in short jobs of 1 or 2 > pages, and in other larger it always counts less. > > I think that HP has changed the behawiour of the HP-4100 printers, but > maybe a little modification into the Do_waitend lines would solve this > problem. > > A solution increasing the pagecount_poll parameter makes the printer to > work too slowly. > > The problem has been proved in several HP-4100 printers. > The version of firmware in all of them is: > HP JetDirect: J4169A > Firmware Version: L.20.24 > > With the HP-4000 and all others HP laser printers that I have, > everything works correctly. > It has been tried with the versions 3.3.10 and 3.4.7 of ifhp filter and > the problem is the same. > I attach the log file of the process, first for a HP-4100 that works > badly and later for a HP-4000 that works correctly. > > Could anyone help me with this problem. > Thanks in advance, > Fernando Blanco
Note: the HP4100 is NOT repeat NOT the same model as the HP4000 and the firmware is RADICALLY different. Call HP, complain, scream and shriek. Ask them for the magic 'TRUE END OF JOB PJL' stuff. If they do not have it, then you are ... umm... screwed. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
