Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:19:13 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Matthew Hagerty" <mhagerty@voyager.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: LPD pausing while sending jobs Message-ID: <002401c11b12$ab055820$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010801135127.023d7730@pop.voyager.net>
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make sure that you have flashed the HP JetDirect card with the latest firmware from HP that sounds like a bug that they had in one of their firmware versions once. Also see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew Hagerty >Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:19 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: LPD pausing while sending jobs > > >Greetings, > >I have an HP-5M Postscript configured to use LPD via a JetDirect Ethernet >port. LPD is running and the printcap entry is on a FreeBSD-4.2-RELEASE >box. I have 1 question and 1 problem. > >Question: Do I need to use a filter like apsfilter or magicfilter? This >printer will only *ever* be printing Postscript files and seems to work >okay, except for the problem below. > >Problem: When several jobs are queued (more than 3), the first few run off >very quickly, almost as fast as the printer can feed the paper. But then >the process pauses for about 30 seconds, then the printer spits out 2 or 3 >more pages, then pauses again. During a test run of 10 jobs, lpq kept >reporting a loss of connection to the printer. The Postscript files are >very simple and the large ones are about 50K. > >Any insight would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, >Matthew > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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