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From: Francisco Franco <ffranco@aerocompsys.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:14:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: PPR: missing ppr.conf? -- should be misconfigured printer?

Hi David,

Well, I now have the jobs spewing out of the printer, however, I have to 
use the -H transparent option in ppr.  The problem with the PS files is 
that they are billing reports, just from a QA system, however, I don't 
know how realistic the data is.  So, I'm not too sure on the ability of 
sending the file off-site.

With regards with the job being an NT jobs, I'm not sure.  Through 3rd 
parties, I was told that it was a PS level 2 job, from the little bit of 
PS that I know, it appears to be encapsulated postscript, but I'm stuck 
right now.  I know that the application that generates the PS has been 
running on HP-UX for quite sometime and it is now being ported to Solaris.  
However, the problem with Solaris 8 is that when one printer gets hung, 
all the print queues from that box gets hung as well.  This is not the 
case with PPR, so that's why I would like to move to PPR, in addition, 
this could be something that we have as a standard whether it's Solaris, 
HP-UX, in the near future Linux and of course SAMBA for NT.

With this shot in the dark info that I have given you any suggestions?

Francisco

On 9 May 2002, David Chappell wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 17:11, Francisco Franco wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > Just an update.  I went back, removed ppr and re-instated the lp that 
> > comes with Solaris.  Defined the printer using the admintool and now it 
> > works.  The print job went through on Solaris 8.  Using the OS lp on HP-UX 
> > 11, I have to do a lp -d myprinter -o postscript and it works.  I was 
> > using ppr-1.44.  I've noticed that ppr-1.50a1 is now available.  I'm going 
> > to download the updated package and see if this fixes the problem.
> > 
> > Any ideas as to what your experience may point to what I have done wrong 
> > would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Francisco
> 
> The warnings that PPR produces for this job suggests that it is an
> Windows NT job.  Could you explain how your Solaris HP-UX and NT
> machines are related to this job?  Is it just one job or any job you
> print from your NT machine?  Is there a non-confidential job that you
> could post on a web server so that we can see it?  (By job I means that
> PostScript output of the NT printer driver.)
> 
> 
> 

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Francisco Franco                        ffranco@aerocompsys.com
AeroComp Consulting Inc.                (416) 409-0163