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The Question is: I'm trying to print to a Lexmark laserprinter 4029-10L. I'm printing from the PCI parallel port on the Alpha. I'm using postscript format and I'm emulating the same on the printer. When I try to print the file, the printer 'flushes' the data from its buf fer and won't print the documant. What am I doing wrong? Below is the printer/print queue setup: set printer lra0:/tab/passall/lower/printall/nocr/trunc/width=132 define /system $printer lra0: set device /spooled=(sys$print,sys$sysdevice:) $printer initialize /queue /start sys$print /on=printer /sep=(noflag,notrailer) - /default=nofeed set queue sys$print /form=postscript /default=(form=postscript,nofeed) /schedule=nosize set protectio=(s:rwlp,o,g,w:rwlp) /device $printer Thanks Tom The Answer is : The OpenVMS Wizard would strongly encourage the use of a printer NIC and IP-based printing. Parallel printing is an unfortunately inviting approach, but often problematic to configure and debug. If you do wish to continue this current approach, you will want to acquire the ECO kit for the LR driver for your OpenVMS release, and you will want to determine if it is possible to configure the printer to automatically detect and switch between print file formats. You will also want to determine if SET PRINTER/POLLED will assist in communications here. The DCPS package is the usual approach for printing to a Postscript printer, and there are presently no plans to add support for parallel port printing within the DCPS package. DCPS supports printing to a wide variety of printers (please see the SPD for the current list) using both serial communications and network-based printers (NICs). If you wish to use this printer and it does not have support for an integrated NIC, various NICs are available that permit the printer to be connected to the network via its parallel port.
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