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From: lcz@sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Problem with JetPage cart in HP LJ III
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.020932.6225@sat.datapoint.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 02:09:32 GMT
Sender: lcz@sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals)
Organization: Datapoint Corporation, San Antonio, TX
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I am having problems with a brand new HP LJ III with a JetPage postscript
cartridge.  This is running under SVR4, using the AT&T supplied postscript
printer filters.  Postio sits forever waiting to print a job.  The problem
appears to be that the printer is always responding to a status request with
"busy".  It never sends "idle", so postio waits forever for the printer to
become available.  I tried opening the port and sending a control-T manually,
with the same result - even after the printer is first powered on and no other
bytes have been sent to the port.  I am a complete novice with postscript,
so I don't really know what the correct behaviour is. 

If I simply hose a postscript file directly out the serial port, ignoring the
printer status, it prints just fine.

Another question: is the JetPage cartridge any good?  I thought that we were
getting the HP Adobe cartridge, but I did not place the order myself.  Should
we send the JetPage back and get the HP?  The JetPage seems awfully slow!

More details tomorrow; it's getting late and I'm going home.

Lee Ziegenhals (lcz@sat.datapoint.com)