[Info-vax] DCPS V2.7 and Brother printers

[Alan Frisbie]

On 03/24/2019 10:38 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Because you bought a cheap printer with no postscript support?

The printer *does* have Postscript, which works nicely with Linux
and Windoze.   I can also generate a Postscript file on the VMS system,
ftp it to the Windoze box, and print it from there.  I would simply
like to cut out the middleman and use it with DCPS.

> Just fix the 4100.  What is it doing?  Is it jamming and in need of
> new rollers, or has the clutch started sticking and causing blank pages
> at the end of jobs?

If it were just that, I could have fixed it with the spares I had.
But it started showing error messages that indicated, I believe,
the formatter board.   I replaced the indicated board, but the same
error persisted.   At that point it became less expensive to simply
replace the printer.   I specifically got a Postscript model with
the expectation that it would have a good chance of working with DCPS.

It's a shame, because I really liked the HP 4xxx series, once some
of the early firmware bugs had been fixed.  But when the indicated
fix doesn't work, and the users (wife) are screaming for a working
printer, next day delivery from Newegg trumps all.

Alan Frisbie