On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Hans Peter Verne wrote:
> Jim Easton wrote: > > > > Try rebooting the printer. We had two of these beasts and they > > gradually got slower and slower but a reboot fixed them up. It > > is my belief that its memory was getting fragmented. (Sort of > > typical of HP software/firmware) > > Indeed. That didn't work. Actually it took longer because the cache setting went back. (it is about a 4 minute difference but still 25 minutes..) It is also impractical in our production environment since we have ~60 of them in various locations acrossed campus. > > Supposedly there was a fix: A guy I made contact with in the > > inner sanctums of HP said the following: > > > > > To address your second question I spoke with our Jet direct boys and they > > > said there should be a firmware download for your jet direct card that will > > > resolve the slow printing issue, also our corporate team who supports the > > > 8150 also suggested that the firmware in the printer be upgraded if it > > > hasn't been. > > > > I never did apply these patches but someone of my aquaintance tried > > upgrading the printer firmware and she said it didn't help. > > My experience too. We have a lot of complaints about HP's grinding to a > very slow speed, and frequent crashes. 8150 in particular. > I try to keep both the printer and the jetdirect firmware up-to-date, > but so far it hasn't been much improvement. I think we have all updated firmware on these or pretty close. > > Also if you find a "Unix" version of the update let us know that too. > > The printer firmware can be simply pushed to the printer , eg. > > socket -q printer.my.domain 9100 < fw7_109.rfu > While we are on HP commands. Is there a way to cancel a job that is currently printing on the queue remotely? lprm doesn't seem to remove the job from the printer IF it has already been sent. (the latest lprn/ifhp stuff.) When I increased the IO buffer size, the job runs through ifhp but it is stuck on the queue, even if I use the lprm command. (unless of course I am using it wrong..) Sean ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
