> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 14 19:52:04 2002
> From: "Burath, Philipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: LPRng: Strange Printing occurance...
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:39:48 +1000
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> Hi,
>
> We have just changed over to using a new HP-UX box moving from a DG/UX box.
> The printing system is setup such that when a printjob is sent from our
> HP-UX box it is forward to a Linux box also running LRNG using the
> Printer:tc=.xxx:printer@remotehost construct and then off to the printer,
> which works nicely.
>
> I look after quite a few remote printers. One such printer a Lexmark Optra
> R+ (busrpt0) which is connected via a Router in one of our remote locations
> which is causing problems! We have an identical printer (karrpt0) in a
> different location, identical router/printer setup and this printer hasn't
> got any issues.
>
> What is happening is that when print jobs are sent from our DG/UX (lpsched
> spooling system) the printer prints fine in english characters, but when
> printing from the new HP-UX box the printout is positioned correctly on the
> page, but the alpha character are not english, they are symbols, but the
> numbers on the page come out correctly. The strange thing is that when
> sending a print job from the new box immediately after sending one from the
> DG/UX box, then the printout is fine?
>
> Attached is printcap from Linux Box...
>
> Any idea? Has anybody seen this phenomenon before?
>
> Regards

Sounds like the language and/or character set of the printer
is set to something very strange.  I suppose that you did
try and get the Lexmark folks to look at this... ???

Patrick

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