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

Carl Friedberg frida.fried at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 07:24:18 EDT 2015


Jan-Erik,

I am following this closely. I too have a couple of 6500's. They use a huge
amount of expensive toner, but have been good quality and reliable. I have
not been successful with DCPS either.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm via Info-vax <
info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> Jan-Erik Soderholm skrev den 2015-03-06 13:38:
>
> I think I wrote earlier that the printer didn't print
> anything at all. Now, with another guy on-site, it seems
> as that was wrong. The operator had simply tossed the
> error-printout and said that "nothing was printed"... :-)
>
> Here is a copy of what actualy *is* printed:
> http://jescab2.dyndns.org/pub_docs/wp_20150310_10_26_18_pro.jpg
>
> Picked up from the dustbin from last week... :-)
>
> The queue looks like this (name and address protected):
>
> $ sh que <queue_name>/fu
> Printer queue <queue_name>, idle, on HV06::"IP_LPD/<IP-address>",
> mounted form DEF_CHAR_SW (stock=DEFAULT)
>   /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=DEF_CHAR_SW (stock=DEFAULT))
>   /NOENABLE_GENERIC /LIBRARY=DCPS_LIB Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM]
>   /PROCESSOR=DCPS$SMB /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)
> $
>
> The test print was a simplt textfile:
>
> $ type a.txt
> Testfil... Testfil...
> Testfil... Testfil...
> Testfil... Testfil...
> Testfil... Testfil...
> Testfil... Testfil...
> Testfil... Testfil...
> Testfil... Testfil...
> $
>
> and it was printed using:
>
> $ print/que=<queue_name> a.txt
>
> This works OK using another queue with exactly the same setup,
> apart from the IP-address, of course. But in that case there is
> a Xerox 3250 instead of the new Xerox 6500.
>
> To me it looks as some minor incompatibility between DCPS
> and the new PS emulator in the Xerox 6500.
>
> The 3250 says:
> "PostScript Version PS3 1.94.06 12-22-2008"
>
> The 6500 says:
> "PostScript (PS) Interpreter Level 3 201103101130"
>
> The "quick-fix" right now is to setup a 3250 besides of
> the 6500 and use that for VMS printouts. But of course
> they'd prefer to use the faster 6500 for all printouts...
>
>
> Jan-Erik.
>
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