[Info-vax] Xerox Phaser 6500N and DCPS issues.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Anderson skrev den 2015-03-06 02:54:
> In article <mdapsc$cgd$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
>> A few days ago a Xerox Phaser 6500N was installed and
>> we set it up as we use to do with a Xerox Phaser in DCPS.
>>
>> Nothing prints but there is a log in the logging part of
>> the printer itself just saying "error" with no expanation
>> on what the error might be.
>
> Do you use LPD spooling in DCPS?  I don't recall that the Phasers
> required it, but that many of the larger Xerox printers needed the byte
> count for the whole job sent at the beginning of the job.  This is
> something that defining spooling (system-wide or by queue) does.  Check
> the DCPS documentation about defining the DCPS$SPOOL logical name.
>
> Does this printer work with jobs from other environments?  Does it have
> PostScript?  Is that the default?  Unfortunately, LPD can fail silently
> if there is a problem, which makes it harder to troubleshoot.
>
> Paul
>

Got a verification that the new 6500N printer works OK from
other sources, both Citrix based thin-clients and older
WinXP based clients (they might both share the same printer
server though...)

Do not know if they uses PCL or PS, depends on the Windows
driver I guess...

/Jan-Erik.