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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:55:17 -0500 Subject: Re: PPR: We got some issues... Martin Whinnery wrote: > We have a number of issues, the most pressing of which is that on a > number of our non-postscript printers, large jobs are dying part way > through. The first few pages print, then the job arrests. > > I'm at a loss. > > PS Our network clients are Win95 machines, and we use Adobe's PS driver. This most common reason for a job to be arrested is a PostScript error. In such a case, PPR doesn't stop the job from printing, it simply reports that it has failed. However, if you are using Ghostscript, there are a few additional possible causes. For example, it is possible that a communications error is being reported by Ghostscript as a PostScript error. If there was a PostScript error, it should show up in the job's log file. If not, look in the printer's alerts file. Here are sample commands: $ ppop log bigprn-1004 $ ppop alerts bigprn