Well, this one had me completely stumped, but ultimately it was
fixed.
Many thanks to Udo de Boer and Selden E Ball, Jr for giving me
their thoughts. They set me on a direction that seems to have
solved the problem, altho I'm still confused as to why, but I
can print, so it doesn't bother me. :-)
A few years ago, I had set our Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to
the 'Up Switch Position', which allows for custom configuration of
the protocols that are accepted thru its various ports. In an
attempt to prevent random printings, I'd specifically set the TCP/IP
port to only recognized Postscript jobs.
Apparently, that was the problem. I switched the setting to "Autoselect"
(ie between PCL5 and Postscript) and now I can print.
Still doesn't answer why our old 4.0D machine could print to the
machine, but what the hell, it prints now, so I'm satisfied.
Original email follows:
At 6:04 PM -0700 20/7/01, I wrote:
>I'm completely stumped.
>
>We have a new DS20E running Tru64 UNIX version 5.1. The problem
>I'm having is that it (and only it) can't print to an Apple Laserwriter
>16/600 PS.
>
>The printer is set up to accept TCP/IP lpr jobs. In fact, all of
>our other machines (a few Macs, handful of Windoze machines, Linux
>boxen, and an old Digital Personal Workstation 433au running Digital
>UNIX 4.0D) can all print thru TCP/IP. However, the DS20E can't.
>
>We also have a couple of other printers (HP LaserJet 4 and a 2100TN)
>also set up for TCP/IP printing, and the DS20E can print to them
>just fine.
>
>It's only the Apple LaserWriter that the DS20E can't print to.
>
>I've tried looking a the Tru64 documentation and documentation on the
>Apple side, but for the life of me, I can't seem to figure this one
>out.
>
>The DS20E can see the printer, and for that matter, the print's
>activity light blinks a few times whenever I send over a print job,
>but the blinking soon stops and nothing pops out.
>
>WAH. If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it. Many
>thanx in advance.
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Sung Moon Kang BK94 AA96 | UCLA - Mech & Aerospace Engineering
sung.kang.bk.94_at_aya.yale.edu | http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~kangs
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 07:45:22 NZST