I have menaged to setup Samba services to share an IBM 4039 printer and have tested another printer (Epson LX-800) on the PC. It works fine. The weird thing, the IBM4039 will not print anything. All the jpbs will be spooled. For each print job to be printed. I will need to switch off the printer and switch it on again. Have anyone encountered such problems before? I know there is basically nothing wrong (to my knowledge) with the setup since the LX-800 is working. Furthemore I have another similar setup using an Epson Stylus Pro and its working fine. Anybody have any idea? Anything you could think of is good, cos' I'm really baffled. TIA
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Philip Tong wrote:> I have menaged to setup Samba services to share an IBM 4039 printer and have > tested another printer (Epson LX-800) on the PC. It works fine. > > The weird thing, the IBM4039 will not print anything. All the jpbs will be > spooled. For each print job to be printed. I will need to switch off the > printer and switch it on again. > > Have anyone encountered such problems before? I know there is basically > nothing wrong (to my knowledge) with the setup since the LX-800 is working. > Furthemore I have another similar setup using an Epson Stylus Pro and its > working fine. > > Anybody have any idea? Anything you could think of is good, cos' I'm really > baffled.Check that your lp script/program is sending a form feed - many printers won't start the print until this is received to indicate that the whole page has been sent. --- Peter Blake ppb@blake.org.uk
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Blake <ppb@blake.org.uk> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.anu.edu.au> Date: 27 October, 1998 10:00 PM Subject: Re: IBM 4039 Laserprinter. Weird problem.>Check that your lp script/program is sending a form feed - >many printers >won't start the print until this is received to indicate that >the wholepage has been sent. Thanks for the reply Peter. Whet you are refering to is that the printer buffer will be holding on to the data until a FF is sent. The strange thing here is that the jobs are queued but not sent at all. If a job was in the buffer and if I switch off the printer and on it again usually garbage will be printed, but this is a bit different. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I think it could be hardware related.