Re: Client Access Printer emulation delay

["Bill Albert" <balbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps the printer is "asleep" and because it is thermal takes some warmup
time.  Does local print first time take as long?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sneddon, Jim" <JSneddon@AllstateTicketing.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Client Access Printer emulation delay


> Our end-users access our AS400 (on V4R4) with a Client Access terminal
> session and they have a small thermal ticket-printer which is connected
with
> a Client Access printer emulation window. This all goes through a NT
network
> via TCP/IP to the AS400
>
> Whenever the user hits enter in the program that prints the tickets the
> printer emulation window shows it's little "activity" icon and then it
takes
> 15 to 20 seconds for the printer to start printing.  All of the tickets in
> the batch after the initial delay come out one after another.
>
> If I watch the appropriate outq while this happens everything appears to
be
> normal and the output is gone within the first couple of seconds after
> hitting enter so it doesn't appear to be hanging around in the outq.
>
> This happens to workstations in the field connected via 56K dial-up to our
> NT network and it happens here in the office on my PC less than 10 feet
from
> the 400.
>
> On the NT side the Client Access printer emulator prints to the
> "Generic/Text Only" driver and I've fiddled around with the spool settings
> and priorities to no avail.  I can have it go directly without going to NT
> spool and it still takes 15 - 20 seconds to print.
>
> Just for grins I've tried Mocha, Rhumba, and a couple of more obscure 5250
> emulation packages and the delay remains.
>
> Most of the end-users are on Client Access and I'm on Client Access
Express
> 4.3 and the delay is the same.
>
> So....
>
> Anyone have any ideas???  Is there something I'm missing on the 400 side
> that could cause the delay ???? or am I stuck with an NT problem...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Sneddon
> jsneddon@allstateticketing.com
> Las Vegas, NV
>
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