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From: tony@SDD.HP.COM (Tony Parkhurst)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Problems printing from Sun386i to HPLJ III
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Date: 16 Apr 91 21:58:48 GMT
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In article <9104111904.AA07579@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, wagner@CHEPIL.WERU.KSU.EDU (Larry Wagner) writes:
 
|> I have recently recieved an HP Laserjet III printer which has
|> replaced an HP Laserjet II.  The LJ III was just substituted in place of the
|> LJ II.  No problems were evident with the LJ II, but the LJ III will not
|> complete print jobs (except small ones under a couple of pages) - leaving
|> the formfeed indicator on instead of finishing the print job.  This occurs
|> regardless of whether the files have been sent via lpr or through PC-NFS
|> using WP5.1 on PCs.  The following error message occurs on the console
|> every time the problem occurs:
|> <<< Tue Apr  9 09:09:07 1991 >>>
|> cat: write error: No such device or address

If you are hooked up via rs-232, make sure that the printer is in Xon/Xoff
mode, NOT DTR.


 
|> /usr/lib/hplaserjet
|> -------------------
 
|> /usr/bin/echo -n 'E&k2G'


I don't know how this looked to you, but there should be two escapes in
this string:

	<esc>E<esc>&k2G


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		Tony Parkhurst	( tony@sdd.HP.COM )

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