>Hi Ashley,
>
>The message being captured via ifhp is the end of job commands from a
>Windows PostScript printer driver. You might want to check and see wh
>ether
>the working Lexmark Optra T616 printers are receiving their ifhp info
>rmation
>via a Windows PCL 5e or PCL 6 printer driver instead of a PostScript
>printer
>driver.
Hmm, that's certainly what it looks like, but I still get this even when
printing from the solaris host lpd is running on via lpr. eg.
echo "This is a test" > file.txt
lpr -Porange_b file.txt
lpq -Porange_b -llllll
Filter_status: started FILE_UTIL- 'file' at 09:36:50.151
Filter_status: file information = 'ascii_text' at 09:36:50.153
Filter_status: initial job type 'ascii_text' at 09:36:50.153
Filter_status: decoded job type 'PCL' at 09:36:50.153
Filter_status: job type 'PCL' at 09:36:50.153
Filter_status: transferring 18 bytes at 09:36:50.154
Filter_status: 44 percent done at 09:36:50.154
Filter_status: 100 percent done at 09:36:50.154
Filter_status: sent job file at 09:36:50.154
Filter_status: getting end using 'ps' at 09:36:50.154
Filter_status: code = 10024, 'waiting' at 09:36:50.474
Filter_status: end of job detected at 09:36:50.847
Filter_status: error = 'undefined; Offending' at 09:36:51.000
Filter_status: Error: undefined; Offending Command: ^T^D at 09:36:51.000
I don't understand how this could cause the above error. I understand
even less how it fails here and yet works for every other printer.
Hmm, wait.. an idea. (changes waitend=ps to waitend=pjl)
Filter_status: sent job file at 09:49:12.534
Filter_status: getting end using 'pjl job/eoj' at 09:49:12.534
^^^^^^^^^^^
Filter_status: code = 10024, 'waiting' at 09:49:12.857
Filter_status: end of job detected at 09:49:12.915
Filter_status: pagecounter 155072 after 1 attempts at 09:49:12.930
Filter_status: pagecounter 155072, pages 0 at 09:49:12.931
Filter_status: done at 09:49:12.935
Works fine. ARGH! I recently got these printers to pagecount
correctly without the need to poll them by having this in the
ifhp.conf:
ps_init=[ sync ]
ps_sync=
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin true setenginesync end
ps_async=
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin false setenginesync end
and setting waitend=ps.
Any ideas on why the postscript waitend is killing this printer? I
really need to use it to get correct pagecounting.
On a related note, I'd be interested in creating a Lexmark Optra
T616 entry in ifhp.conf for all to share, but aren't entirely
sure how to go about it. Can anyone provide me with some
pointers?
Regards,
Ashley
>
>HTH
>
>Best Regards,
>
>/Paul
>--
>Paul Tykodi
>National Product Manager
>Intermate US Inc.
>
>p: 603-431-0606 x115
>f: 603-436-6432
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.intermate.com
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
>Of
>>Ashley Smith
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:44 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: LPRng: Error: undefined; Offending Command: ^T^D^D
>>
>>
>>Guys,
>>
>>Any ideas on this one? It's a Lexmark Optra T616 laser printer, the
>>same as about 30 others we use across a few locations. Seemingly
>>without warning, this printer, and only this printer, now prints
>>3 copies of each job (the ifhp filter fails with a JFAIL so lpd
>>retries the job two more times). Ifhp seems to be failing due to
>>the strange characters you can see in the error message below.
>>Trouble is, this happens regardless of what you print - even if it's
>>just a text file with "This is a test" in it. The printcap, ifhp,
>>lpd and printer firmware & basecode are all consistent with the
>>other printers that work fine, so I can't put my finger on the
>>cause of it. The printers are being printed to via LPR printing
>>from Windows 2000 or XP.
>>
>>Any ideas? Alternatively, for the short term, how can I tell
>>lpd not to retry jobs that fail? I see that JFAIL retries
>>printing but JABORT doesn't - is there someway I can tell lpd
>>to fail with JABORT instead of JFAIL?
>>
>>Any help much appreciated.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ashley
>>
>>
>>
>>$ lpq -Porange_b -lll
>>Printer: orange_b@rana 'lexmark t616 Burwood, Room b416'
>> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
>> Status: printing finished at 09:20:33.161
>> Status: accounting at end at 09:20:33.168
>> Status: finished 'ashs@rana+374', status 'JFAIL' at 09:20:33.174
>> Status: subserver pid 18471 exit status 'JFAIL' at 09:20:33.183
>> Status: job 'ashs@rana+374', attempt 3, allowed 3 at 09:20:33.207
>> Status: send_failure_action 'JREMOVE' at 09:20:33.210
>> Status: job 'ashs@rana+374', removing job - status JREMOVE at 09:20
>:33.210
>> Status: removing job 'ashs@rana+374' - JREMOVE at 09:20:33.225
>> Filter_status: transferring 13900 bytes at 09:20:33.032
>> Filter_status: 73 percent done at 09:20:33.034
>> Filter_status: 100 percent done at 09:20:33.034
>> Filter_status: sent job file at 09:20:33.035
>> Filter_status: getting end using 'ps' at 09:20:33.035
>> Filter_status: end of job detected at 09:20:33.148
>> Filter_status: error = 'undefined; Offending' at 09:20:33.155
>> Filter_status: Error: undefined; Offending Command: ^T^D^D at 09:20
>:33.155
>
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