The most common cause of this in my experience is incorrect use of flow
control with serial printers.
For the non-techies (are there any on this list?) Your UV system can
probably produce data faster than the printer can handle it so it needs a
way to say stop!. There are fundamentally two
thanks for the reply martin.
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From: Martin Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: UV losing print characters
The most common cause of this in my experience is incorrect use
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a client has reported that they are randomly infrequently having
characters dropped from print jobs.
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How does the job get from the UV server to the printer?
Are they on Windows or Unix? If Unix, are they using a 'driver' to pass the data from
UV's spooler to lp?
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u2-users mailing
That is a common issue of comms where the buffer is overflowing. Check
how the printer is connected, serieal, TCP/IP. Also check the distance
of the printer from the computer and issues of electrical noise that
could corrupt information going down the line.
Regards
David Jordan
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