Re: 4230 Printer Problem...

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kirk Goins wrote:

<What kind of controller are you using? IBM? OEM? Model? Also what level of 
OS/400
are you at. I want to remember that some IBM controllers wanted a certain rev 
level
mcode to handle some prnters.>

Perle...

Yep, I remember back some years ago when IPDS printers first came out that you 
had
to have a certain rev of MC on the 5394's (remember this with PC/Support too ?).

Moving the 4230 to another port corrected everything.

Thanks anway !

Chuck

>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
> >
> > 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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