Re: IBM 4317 (NP17) Printers

[Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@xxxxxxxx>]

Danny McQuestion wrote:
> 
> What happens when you pull the trays is that the print engine stops and
> sends the AS/400 a paper jam message.  The AS/400 sends an
> acknowledgment to the printer and waits for the printer to say it is
> ready to receive requests.  After the jam condition on the printer is
> resolved, the printer flushes the cache along with the jam
> acknowledgment from the AS/400.  Now the printer waits on the AS/400 for
> a jam acknowledgment.  The AS/400 on the other hand is still waiting on
> the printer.  The saga continues....  Recovery?  ENDWTR, power cycle
> printer, STRPRTWTR.

Interestingly on the NP24, when you clear the jam and reply PAGE on the
AS/400 message, the printer continues printing where it left off.  The
subsequent jobs print with no problem.  However, if you reset the
printer, you have to ENDWTR and STRPRTWTR.  I have tried the tray  
> 
>         I still have problems with switching between paralell and twinax.
> Periodically the print process will hang on twinax.  Initiated either
> from the AS/400 or Printer side, I do not know which.
> 
The way the guy at the printing tech line explained to me is (I have
*IPDS and Ethernet LAN printing from Novell Netware), is the NP24 IPDS
SIMM does not relinquish the printer to PCL and vice versa.  Setting the
timeout on the Printer to 30 seconds, helps a little.  However, the
AS/400 has to have the *SEC15 on the release timer in the PSF config for
the two sides to understand each other.  Go figure.

-- 
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net
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