> -----Original Message----- > From: John Perkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: LPRng: SLOW spooling of Word file containing 225 pgs of > scann ed docs > > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:36:17 -0500 > "Van Sickler, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The Lanier is a Ricoh Aficio 3800CMF
Actually, its an AP3800CMF...same thing? > > > > rebranded. It's internal print firmware > > > > is fragile and poorly implemented. > > > > Printing PS3 directly to any of > > > > the various embedded print servers > > > > corrupts the queue listing, and eventually > > > > the printer won't accept any new jobs. > > > > Warm booting the printer 3-4 times a day > > > > gets to be annoying real fast. I've had > > > > to reformat the internal hard drive > > > > a couple of times in order to clean out > > > > all of the gremlins. > > > Actually, I'm pretty happy with it-once I figured out > > which drivers & setup to use and which drivers & setup > > to avoid, it's been very stable and productive. From a > > maintenance standpoint, it's fast/easy to swap out the > > fuser oil units, toner, photoconductors, etc. > > I only call out the vendor service when it's a major job, > > or the "you break it, you pay for it" variety. > > This gives me a sort of sinking feeling... > we just went and replaced > a number of Xerox Phaser 5400 printers with > Lanier LD045/LD060 copiers > and Lanier 2145 printers (rebranded Ricoh > Aficio 1045/1060 and AP4510 > products). From what I've seen, the > paper-handling mechanism is > pretty solid in these units. > The network interface didn't seem to be > any worse than other printers we've dealt > with so far. > I wouldn't be too concerned just yet. If the clients are Windows PCs, just install the RPCS drivers as the primary (only?) driver. Avoid printing from the clients directly to the printer, which sounds like what you're planning anyway. (Large Word files containing 225 pgs of scanned docs should be sent using the RPCS driver and raw/9100 port on the printer. Trust me...) My problems all went away when I went to this setup. The only time I use the PS3 drivers are to print to file, then use GhostScript/GSView to convert to .pdf. Works great! My nightmare days were the early ones, when I was testing drivers, and printing from the clients directly to the printer. The PS3 v1.0 drivers did something that corrupted the queue information, and shortly after that the printer would stop accepting jobs. If you use the Smart Monitor, and watch the Job History, you'll see patterns to the driver/port combinations. When info for previously printed jobs disappear, leaving only the date/time, the printer is on it's way to la-la land, and needs to be reset. In the Properties, Print Preferences, Printer Configuration you'll find the User ID: entry. Use it-many entries in the Job History seem to have this and the date/time as the only info. The raw/9100 jobs are this way... I use the following setup, which works fine for all but the big jobs: Win2k/XP: RPCS v 2.67 (2.24, 2.58 were ok) Local TCP/IP Port, Custom, LPR w/ByteCount enabled (LPRng%9100 doesn't work, 9100 not forwarded via pf) LPRng 2.2x on OpenBSD 3.x Printing to LPRng; [EMAIL PROTECTED] or lanier%9100 works okay, but: User Name and Document Name info is missing in the Job History entry for jobs printed by LPRng via lanier%9100. Everything is present using [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears the slow printing is a TCP problem, not with the printer. See previous msgs in this thread for Rick Cochran's comments. Printing via samba isn't an avenue I'm willing to go down anymore, unless someone can tell me how to get something other than "Remote Downlevel Document" as the document name. I've tried a couple of the filters in smb.conf, but the spool file name is what ends up being displayed (smbprn.yadayada). IMHO, simpler is better; if I'm using LPRng only, and samba crashes, printing continues, and I can sort out samba without being rushed. Anyway, it didn't seem to speed up the Word doc when I tested printing via samba... Jim P.S. I apologize for the subject gaining/losing random spaces. Our Corp IS are running Antigen, and it seems to be the culprit. > We also just installed a Lanier > LP 020c color printer...no such delays > with. Everything we print goes to > a RedHat 9/LPRng print server, which > processes jobs and sends them out to > the appropriate printer using > port 9100/appsocket. (Our Tektronix > Phaser 850DP met an early > demise when some well-meaning users > tried to unjam the printer and > proceeded to break one of the > paper-path sensors.) > Damn Users! I have one "well meaning" user that tore up the Tray 3 on the Lanier, then proceeded to jam it back into the slot...took me 45 minutes to get it out, and another 20 to fix it. Another one...we could go on all day! > We do all our printer status and > pagecounts via SNMP. I've all but > given up on doing it any other way. > Jobs go off to the printers, they > print, then we do a page count query, > calculate the number of jobs > printed and finish. > > (Why would we take on such a massive > replacement? Mainly cost: with > the state purchase contract in effect > that we can use, it cost us > LESS to go and lease brand new printers > than it did to keep buying > toner and maintenance kits for the Xerox > printers we had already > bought outright.) > > -- > ========================================== > John Perkins | University of > Wisconsin-Madison > Associate Researcher | Department of > Computer Science > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. 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