RE: Printer Weirdness

["Jerry C. Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

I haven't seen a printer in eons that didn't have a memory buffer.  But,
then, even in those cases once the document is printed the buffer is
flushed.  The only thing to comes to my mind would be that the spool file
entry isn't getting marked as completed (i.e., deleted).  But, then, that
would occur when the system has completed sending the printed output (buffer
or no).  You're right, Chuck, this is weird.  I could "see" it if a partial
document was printed 2-n times because, if there is no memory on the
printer, the spool file would remain on the system.

Do the users (or anyone) have to respond to a message to get the additional
copy(ies)?  Sounds like you need to talk with the Doctor.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 12:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Printer Weirdness

Hi Richard,

The weird thing is the terminals are fine. There are laser printers
attached to some of those and they are fine.

This caching stuff and printing extra copies (sometime much latter I
just found out) makes no sense since these printers don't have a memory
buffer like a laser...

Thanks,

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Schoen
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:46 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Printer Weirdness

That's the fun of using Cable Lines.  

We have had issues with Cable connections dropping because you really
don't have an end-to-end guaranteed connection. 

It's an "I'm supposed to be online all the way thru, but oops I get
dropped once in a while" when Cable lines or any public Internet
connections are used in general.

Regards,
Richard Schoen