On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Patrick Powell wrote: PP> The "PJL ECHO" command is not supposed to take effect until PP> the previous job finishes. PP> PP> I will not quote from the PJL reference manual, but: PP> PP> Printer Job Language Technical Reference Manual (hard copy), PP> Edition 6, 1995 PP> PP> Page 7-14: PP> PP> In a multi-user environment the printer may respond to PP> may different status requests... PP> PP> Use the ECHO command to synchronize status so that you PP> know that the status you are receiving is the requested PP> status. To do this, send an ECHO command to the printer and PP> then discard the incoming status messages until your message PP> is echoed. PP> PP> Just for giggles, I looked up the PJL USTATUS JOB=ON. PP> Page 7-34: PP> PP> The @PJL USTATUS JOB=ON command is used to notify the application PP> each time a JOB comand is encountered and PP> PP> <MY EMPHASIS> PP> PP> when the final page of a job is in the output tray and PP> and EOJ command has been received. PP> PP> </MY EMPHASIS> PP> PP> You might guess that this is NOT the behaviour in a large PP> number of printers. PP> PP> :-)
Ok, so that sentence should then read: The PJL commands ECHO, EOJ, INFO PAGECOUNT, JOB and USTATUS can be used to retrieve the total number of impressions and check on printer status. Is this now correct then or am I missing come command or do I use some command, that invalidates that statement? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
