[Info-vax] DCPS v2.7 problem with HP P2055dn printer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Paul Anderson wrote:
> In article <ZLGdnVehD5FuINHWnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d at supernews.com>,
>  Alan Frisbie <Frisbie_REMOVE at Flying-Disk.com> wrote:
> 
>> I defined the logical name, stopped the queue and restarted it. There 
>> was no change in the behavior, the spurious extra page with the 
>> diamond character in the upper-left corner still comes out.   Darn.
> 
> Did you try using an LPD queue instead of a Raw TCP queue?  LPD is 
> stupid but if the extra page is somehow due to DCPS asking the printer 
> a question or waiting for a response, using a unidirectional protocol 
> like LPD might eliminate the problem.
> 
> Of course, you won't get printer notifications or errors printed out 
> with LPD, but it might be worth a try.
> 
>> Since the client has a support contract, I'm going to submit a bug 
>> report.   Since the immediate problem has been solved with the 
>> Lexmark printer, I'm not going to devote much time to this now.
> 
> Submitting a bug report is the right thing to do.  Hopefully the new 
> engineers will know what to do.
> 
<snicker, choke, gasp>