From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 17 1:30:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thallo.northcom.net (thallo.northcom.net [207.107.216.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC35414E17 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rtarrant@northcom.net) Received: (qmail 9837 invoked from network); 17 Jul 1999 08:31:12 -0000 Received: from abc-ri4.northcom.net (HELO northcom.net) (207.107.216.134) by thallo.northcom.net with SMTP; 17 Jul 1999 08:31:12 -0000 Message-ID: <379068B0.966DC4AF@northcom.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 04:27:44 -0700 From: Ron Tarrant X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: My Printer Lost My Memory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm running a Xerox DocuPrint P8e from my FreeBSD 2.2.7 box (flameboy). Flameboy serves this printer to the LAN (all other systems are Win95 OSR2 boxes) using a fairly standard Samba configuration. The printer comes with 4mb of RAM and recently I added another 16mb to allow scanning/printing of my wife's ink drawings for limited 'print' runs ('print' in this context is the artist's POV meaning "a copy of an original drawing"). The problem is that the image, when printed, is only half there. It's as if the extra 16mb of RAM was never added. While trying to fix this problem, I've checked file quotas (none are set), expanding the size of the /var partition (it's 100mb now), checked to make sure the RAM is recognized by the printer (a rigamarole involving installation of the Xerox Windows-based driver on a notebook, attaching the printer directly to the notebook then printing out a 'test' page where the amount of RAM is noted), as well as anything else I can think of. Here is the current state of both the server and the Win95 box from which I'm attempting to print: Server: - 64mb system RAM - 137mb swap - /var is a 100mb partition with _lots_ of it free (>90mb) - printcap description based on the "raw:" device from Samba Printing.txt with a line added to suppress the extra formfeed after each print job - no file quotas set Win95 box: - 64mb RAM - 384mb swap available Printer driver on Win95 box: - HP4 (the P8e can emulate anything from HPII to HP6L) - Spooler set to EMP (I've also tried RAW and "print directly to printer") - RAM setting at 20mb Image: - 1.4mb GIF file - in Photoshop 4.0 this file expands to just under 5mb (probably its true size) - 10" x 7.x" 150dpi - when printing from Photoshop, printer is set to 600dpi (at 300dpi, it works fine) So where is the memory being lost? The printer seems to know it has 20mb and the HP4 driver in Windows is being told 20mb. The only thing I can think of is that there is a file size limit being imposed somewhere that I don't see. The possible places are: 1) somewhere deep in the Windows OS configuration 2) the Windows spooler 3) Windows networking client 4) a default file size limit imposed by the Samba server 5) a FreeBSD print spooler However, it's not apparent to me which of these (if any) is to blame and so far I've been able to find no documentation to shed light on this. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks! -Ron Tarrant rtarrant@northcom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message