Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!halliday
From: halliday@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problems with non DEC PostScript printer
Summary: Where to start
Keywords: PostScript,DEC,QMS,Printer
Message-ID: <2071@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 22 Sep 90 19:08:37 GMT
References: <1364@nadia.stgt.sub.org>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Ellipsis Central...
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In article <1364@nadia.stgt.sub.org> bulli@nadia.stgt.sub.org (Thomas Bullinger) writes:
>
>Hi folks,
>
>I have a special problem:
>
>I want to connect a QMS PS-810 PostScript printer to a VAX. Therefore
>I have bought the software "Ansi-Sixel etc." from DEC which also contains
>a print symbiont (=driver) for PostScript. It works fine with an original
>DEC LN 03R, but connecting the QMS instead will result in - nothing is
>printed.

I've had the best luck by telling VMS that the printer is device type
unknown, with 255 character output lines and 255 line pages. With such a
setup the VAX transmits stuff verbatim to the printer and doesn't attempt
to interpret or otherwise alter what goes through. If the printer is
plugged in to a terminal server, turn off AutoPrompt. Read the LATcp manual.

Somebody wrote a print symbiont for LaserWriters and mentioned it in one
of the vms.* newgroups. Try comp.archives for pointers.

For testing purposes try pluging a terminal in where you plug the printer
in and watch what goes by. 

...laura