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From: louie@cellar.bae.bellcore.com (Paul Louie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: printing problems
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Date: 8 Jan 91 17:47:58 GMT
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In article <4756@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> castillo@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Brian Anderson) writes:

>I'm trying to get my Novell network to share a laserprinter, so far with
>limited success.  I'm running Advanced Netware 286 V2.15C over Ethernet.
>
>The first problem occurs when printing the printer.tst file from Word
>Perfect.  This prints just fine when I'm logged in as Supervisor but
>fails on the second page when I'm logged in as anyone else.  This
>problem goes away when I suppress the graphics output of the test
>document, and it does not appear to be related to the file size (larger
>text-only files print fine) or which workstation I use.  I've tried
>using different timeout values with the Capture command, but that
>doesn't change anything.
>
>The second, more serious, problem occurs when I start Microsoft Excel
>for Windows.  Excel runs fine but all attempts to print spreadsheets
>just disappear into hyperspace.  Of course once I'm logged out of the
>network and directly connected to the laserprinter everything works
>fine.
>                                     *
>Any clues or suggestions as to WTHIGO?
>
>*(What The Hell Is Going On)

Brian,

Change your Print Config from TEXT to BYTE STREAM.  This should solve your
problem.  You can use the PRINTCON utility to do that.  If this doesn't
help, let me know and I'll see if my friend can help you.  You can reach
me via email, louie@cellar.bellcore.com