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From: rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Hung DEC Scriptprinter
Keywords: PostScript, DEC LN03R, Zombied, Micrographix
Message-ID: <2034@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 19 Sep 89 18:36:45 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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Hello,

I have posted this question twice in comp.lang.postscript over the
past year or so, and nobody has said a word, so I'm widening the
newgroups in hopes of hearing SOMETHING.

Our DEC ScriptPrinter (LN03R) periodically goes to lunch. I believe
it is caused by the Micrographix PS driver for Microsoft Windows,
but I can't really be sure. The symptoms are that the printer will
selectively print or not print jobs based on some unknown criteria,
and small jobs seem to have better luck than larger. Then, somehow,
it will come back, and everything will be fine. I figure that the
'persistent parameters' get changed nastily, because cycling the
power has no affect. Jobs that work fine one day won't the next. It's
terribly frustrating.

So far, my only recourse (sp?) has been to be patient until it gets
better. I am seriously considering taking out the PS board and looking
for a battery to remove...but there's so many wires back there it's
more than I look forward to.

Has anybody seen ANYTHING like this? Please? The printer gets a lot of
use from our vax and pcs, and my users (and myself) are getting fed up.

Any comment at all would be appreciated. Except, "Never saw thet before."

rob