I have had problems in the past with the spooler in Windows 98. I usually
turn off the spooler and send the print job directly to the printer. It
helps.

If possible I would recommend to upgrade the Win 98 machines to Win2k pro or
XP pro. You will have a lot less problems with all the programs!!

Dan

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Behalf Of tellef
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 6:56 AM
To: All
Subject: Printing to high speed laser, revisited



I asked for opinions about this before, and we tried all
solutions.  None of the solutions helped, but getting a
replacement printer changed things a bit.

PROBLEM:  Printing monthly statements, one statement at
a time, anywhere from 200 - 2000 individual print jobs,
from RBWin, W2K network, Win98 workstations.  They were
printing to an old, old HP laserjet and it came out
perfectly, no problems, but took about 4 hours!

They bought a higher speed OKIData laserjet, put memory
in it to the max, and had all kinds of error messages pop
up, never could get an entire run to go even if only 200
print jobs.  RBase completed the job with no errors and
returned back to the menu.  I originally suspected a
spooling problem, but since it spools perfectly to a much
slower printer (which means more jobs would be in the
spooler because they are being released more slowly)
I can't see how it could be the spooler.

PARTIAL SOLUTION:  Thinking the printer itself could be
defective they arranged for a replacement.  They are using
the stock memory (don't know what it is) and didn't put
in extra.  Printed a run and thought they got everything.
Hurrah!  But at the end a page printed out with this error
message and they discovered that they were short 2 pages.
Any clue where this error message comes from?  Printer?
Spooler?  The message comes on separate lines, with this
alignment:

  /buffer 256 string def
          statusdict begin
                (@PJL TBNAME=) print
                      buffer printername pri
                              (may be going off the page
                              at this point)


Karen
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