On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Nathan Coraor wrote: > "Johan Bengtsson" said: > > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Patrick Powell wrote: > > > > If you have time, you might check out the problem I described that sounds > > > > similar to yours. See > > > > http://www.public.asu.edu/~iddwb/writeups/misc/win2k-print-issue.html > > > > > > > > It may be that ifhp may be doing something strange... > > > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Akop Pogosian wrote: > > > > > > Nope. It is a network problem on the HP printer > > > involving a connection where the 'receiving' end has > > > been closed (i.e. - shutdown() used), but there is still > > > information in the 'sending' buffers. > > > > > > This apparently only gets tweaked when the PostScript interpreter > > > has something to send... Sigh... > > > > So this is a problem with the JetDirect card? Would it be a good idea to > > contact HP and see what they can do...?
> Ah, excellent! I thought that my problem with this was just a fluke, > and hardware related. After going back through the mail archives, it > looks like plenty of people with HP 8000 series are getting this. I > spent an hour or so on the phone last week with HP and eventually he > came to the conclusion that it was the EWS. He shipped me a new one > and it still does it (though the frequency of it does seem to differ, > but I haven't correlated it to the number of people in the lab yet). > Just a heads up, he said the 79.00FE can mean that it's a problem > with the system board, accessories, printer hardware, jetdirect, > network, printing system, file... (read: anything). > > I'm running the latest version of the firmware for the printer and > the JD, so that's apparently not it. Anything else I can try? Try this: telnet to the printer and increase the "TCP/IP idle timeout" value. Default on our 8150:s are 270, I set it to 3200. I'm not sure if works yet, might be a lucky coincidence, but it looks promising. Regards, Johan Bengtsson -- http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~elijah/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
