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From: mcvax!maxim!prc@uunet.uu.net (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: QMS-PS 810 on a serial port
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Date: 22 Feb 89 12:39:08 GMT
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In article <205@uwila.cfht.hawaii.edu>, sysrick@cfht.cfht.hawaii.edu writes:

> We have been using a QMS-PS 810 on a Sun 4/280 for a few months now....
> We have had 3 major problems with this configuration;
> 1. initially any print job would generate a timeout 30 seconds after
> ending...

The infinite timeout should not be needed on a well-behaved printer, but
the ^D's must be there, I think.

> 2. if a job runs out of paper and it is not refilled within 60 seconds
>    then the rest of the job is generally lost

Ouch!

> 3. we still get occassional "unrecognized command, flushing to end of
>    job messages"

Has anyone experienced the same or similar problems as those above with
other PostScript printers?

Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden
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