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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:28:36 -0400
Subject: Re: PPR: Timeouts

adam wrote:

> On a (possibly) related note, users are complaining that they try to print from
> MSOffice2000 apps, and while the document never comes out the banner page does.
> 
> When I do a ppop log job_name this is what I see:
> $ ppop log p-hlpctr-2737
> Job "p-hlpctr-2737" does not exist.
> 
> The banner page indicates two consistencies:
> The job is processed by the PPR dotmatrix printer emulator (though jobs that do
> come through report this as well).
> All jobs are reported as being one page long (when a document is successfiully
> printed, of course, this number is >1).

It sounds like the jobs aren't PostScript.  Are you sure you have the 
right driver installed on the clients?

>> 
>> I am seeing jobs that fail due to timeouts, but I'm confused as to why.
>> 
>> The clients are printing mostly MSWord2000 documents via samba 2.0.7 to
>> ppr1.40 on Tru64.
>> 
>> Here's what ppop list printer_name has to say:
>> 
>> $ ppop list p-hlpctr
>> Queue ID        For                      Time      Pgs Status
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> p-hlpctr-5503   Mark Braunwarth          08:35AM   001 arrested
>>                                                        (Timeout expired)
>> 
This timeout is happening within the printer.  What kind of printer is 
it?  How do you have it set up.  (What does "ppad show" show for it?)