RE: 4230 Printer Problem...

HI, Chuck
sorry to hear about your printer prob; wish I knew of solution; on our old
4234s sometimes the operator didn't replace all the correct switches and
levers after changing ribbons. The printer would print and outq would look
like its running ok but the output forms wouldn't have any print on them
because the hammers weren't able to reach the forms.
BTW, you noted you came from a Unix box; I'm curious to know what kind of
Unix, Unix box, and application. The reason is my company is merging with
another which is Unix dominated. The current mentality is replacing our CISC
AS400 with a Unix-NT only environment with 6-9 months (rather than upgrading
to RISC AS400). They're planning on rewriting our apps (service order
dispatching with billing/invoicing/client info backends) in C++. We have
about 40 GB of data and some 3/4 million lines of code (in RPG). In
addition, we also have JDEdwards running; how does that compare to your
reverse situation?
TIA
Bruce Shaw
'Wish me RISC?'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 9:54 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: 4230 Printer Problem...
> Importance: High
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> We just came up live on our AS/400 yesterday (from a Unix box) and all
> is going fairly well all things considered !
>
> One problem that I am having at one (thankfully ONLY one) of our remote
> locations...
>
> The 4230-101 printer seems to be loosing data, i.e. not printing
> everything. I had the printer here yesterday and printed 50+ pages with
> no problem.
>
> I have had them try changing the printer ribbon with no luck. The weird
> thing is that the form is a 3 part NCR and when they checked the 2nd and
> 3rd copies, the stuff that was missing on the first was missing on them
> ! So the ribbon was probably NOT the problem but needed to be changed
> anyway.
>
> We are going to try and move it to another port on the control unit and
> see what that does.
>
> Anyone have ANY idea what might be causing this ? We picked the 4230's
> up on the used market but they have been refurbished and look GREAT !
> What about maybe resetting to Factory Defaults ? I think that is an
> option on these...
>
> Thanks in advance !!
>
> Chuck
>
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