I've recently encountered host-based printer problems and had SEVERAL discussions with HP American tech support about this (no offense to the outsourcers out there, but it was helpful to have easy communication) and after we moved beyond the typical "manual" of HP answers, the higher tech support levels and I found a solution to it.
Don't use host-based printing in a shared printer environment. Host-based printing is good for using when the printer is connected
directly to the machine which will be doing the output. I doubt that you're printing from the computer that has the Unidata server installed, but if you are, make sure that you're using the USB connection. If you're not printing from the machine with the server on it, then don't use the host-based printing. Because the U2 reports are mostly ASCII-based as far as I know, host-based printing at HP doesn't support it. There are a couple of articles on HP's website regarding this. You need a printer with native printer drivers such as PCL5 or PCL6. On 4/20/06, Mike Pflugfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Windows Server 2003 Universe 10.1.11 Printer: HP Color LaserJet 2600n From what I've found on HP's website and some other research on the net, it appears that this printer uses a 'host-based printer driver' or 'host-based printing'. Does anyone have any experience with this specific printer, or more information about host-based printers in general? The problem that we're having right now is that we can print a test page from Windows and it prints fine. When we try to print from Universe, nothing comes out on the printer. We've paused the printer and printed from Universe and I can see the job hang in the queue waiting to print. We then unpause the printer and still, nothing prints. It appears from the documentation that printers are being made with less intelligence now. They're taking the hardware out of the printer that does the formatting (converting from text to raster) and they're now building it in to the driver in windows. I haven't tested it yet, but I know that there is the GDI option to the SETPTR command that might work for us. Does anyone know if I will still be able to pass PCL codes through with this mode of printing? Thanks for any help you can provide. Michael Pflugfelder | Systems Integrator | Keystone Information Systems | 856-722-0700 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
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