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From: pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Parallel Printing
Message-ID: <7648@dmshq.mn.org>
Date: 17 Feb 90 16:44:53 GMT
References: <1990Feb16.163103.29362@granite.cr.bull.com>
Reply-To: pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio)
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In article <1990Feb16.163103.29362@granite.cr.bull.com> crowley@granite.cr.bull.com (Brian Crowley) writes:
>I am working on both an M2000 high-boy and a low-boy as well and I am having
>a problem getting some vanilla printers (almost) to work in parallel mode.

I've experienced some similar problems with an M-120 using a parallel
printer adapter attached to the PC/AT bus.

In our situation we had originally configured all of the printers
serially, but after the arrival of the parallel port we switched one
over.  Everything worked fine for small outputs, but not for outputs
larger than 1 page.  On these larger outputs the printer would not 
print the last few lines or sometimes even more.  The interface script
was generic and the cabling standard.  The only way that I could get
the interface script to work and not lose output was to put a sleep
statement in the script, right after the cat.  This took care of the
problem and things print fine now.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be a true fix.  I'd be curious as
to whether this is something that is common among the MIPS OS releases
or whether it is something in the parallel driver that we're using.
If you find out anything, Brian, please forward it to me as it will
help me with any new installs we do down the line.

Thanks.

 -Bob

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