Re: HPPJLDRV vs IBMSNMPDRV

I had changed from PJL to SNMP over a week ago on that printer. Worked well, until that happened. A bunch of other Lexmark printers are working nicely. Not sure what could cause this. I told the guy who works on Lexmarks about it. He has seen the network card have problems on other printers. Maybe this is yet another one.


John McKee


-----Original message-----
From: Charles Wilt charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:25:35 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: HPPJLDRV vs IBMSNMPDRV

Any chance the printer doesn't support SNMP?

Unlike PJL, which only requires the functionality in the print
server....SNMP functionality requires parts in the print server (ie.
network card) and the printer itself.

HTH,
Charles

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:03 PM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I had been converting the driver program used for Lexmark printers from HPPJLDRV to IBMSNMPDRV.  Seemed a lot better and a lot more tolerant of printer issues.

Until a few days ago with one printer.

The writer for this printer just ends abnormally.  When it does, all the spool files in the queue get put on HOLD status.

I was told to change the driver back to PJL.

Questions:

Anybody have any idea why this one writer/printer combination is unstable?

Thoughts about why the joblog has nothing useful in it?  Time I see this happening, the job has already ended.  If I had had time, I would have changed the message logging level.

Any idea why spool files get forced to HOLD, and how to stop that?

We are marooned at v5r4, woefully behind on PTFs (sa can't be "bothered").

I have limited access to IBM.  Any PTFs that might address this issue?

John McKee
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