Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:59:15 -0700 From: Tim Baird <tim@storm.digital-rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Printer Lost My Memory Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19990717015915.0096b100@storm.digital-rain.com> In-Reply-To: <379068B0.966DC4AF@northcom.net>
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What does the printcap say ????
you are limited to about 1MB spool unless you specify an mx#.......
if you set mx#0 in your printcap entry, you will be limited in spool space
only by the available space on your spool (var) partition......
At 04:27 AM 17/07/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
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