Printer configuration problem

Hello


We had a strange problem today regarding the printers .

We  had a printer device Q7 which we deleted  and on the same port and 
address we configuered a workstaion.

However , After that , to our surprise , we found that all the print batch 
jobs had a message on qsysopr , stating that the print device Q7 (the 
printer device we deleted) not found.However , all the batch print jobs are 
not supposed and assigned  to go to q7 .Infact the q7 printer was hardly 
used.

For your information we have P8 , P7 and Q5  printers on different ports on 
which the the spool files shd have gone.Unfortunately one of the printer ie 
P8 also went wrong at the same time.I doubt it has anything to do with 
configuration.We checked the printer and I think it is gone wrong wiht the 
hardware side.

To solve it immed , what we did was to just create a dummy device 
discription of q7 , and then all went smooth and all the spool files went to 
their respective outq.



1> But  my question is why did the batch job take Q7  printer when it is not 
assigned to it by any way ?

2> Even if the P8 printer went bad , the spool file should have come to the 
outq assigned to the p8  since the devd of p8 was ok since we did not have 
any message stating that devd is affected.

3> and why other spool files which were not meant to go on P7 and Q5 were 
affected.


Your feed bcak on this will be of immense help


dajiba


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