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Title: eCS 2.0 and Network Printing
Post by: djcaetano on 2008.01.07, 18:43:23

   I'm running eCS2.0 RC1 and I am not being able to print to a HP LaserJet 4 Plus through network.
   The LaserJet is attached to an WinXP box, which has NetBEUI installed and also LMAnnounce activated.
   The eCS 2.0 computer has IBM Peer installed and working. It's able to see WinXP printer and send data
to it.
   The problem is weird and seems related to the network because when I attach the printer directly to my
computer it prints correctly, but not when it is attached to the XP box. The other OS/2 Warp 4.52 box
prints correctly through network. When I print something very small (a small picture, like an icon, in low
resolution or a few lines of text) everything goes right and the data is printed as it should. When I send
a lot of data (big picture or several pages of text), the first lines are correctly printed and then a lot of
garbage is print (bizarre texts like "NETLOGONg    Accept-Language: en-us, en; q=0.5" or simply a long
sequence of control codes or random characters)... and after several pages of garbage, the printing
stops.

   I had already installed the same (older) OS/2 Warp 4.52 printer driver on this eCS box, but the problem
remains the same.
   The only special thing about this printer is the fact it is running with 66MB of memory (2MB internal
plus 2x32MB expansion).

   Any clues about what may be wrong?

   Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: eCS 2.0 and Network Printing
Post by: warpcafe on 2008.01.07, 19:38:09
Hi,

just guessing here... but did you (un~)check the option "printer-specific format" to see if that has any impact?
It must be somewhere in the printer's properties tabs... on/around the "spool" stuff... sorry, have no OS/2 at hand right now... perhaps this has some effect? I found that sometimes it does the trick (for certain printer models and connection variants). Hope it helps.

Regards,
Thomas
Title: Re: eCS 2.0 and Network Printing
Post by: djcaetano on 2008.01.08, 14:43:59
Quote from: warpcafe on 2008.01.07, 19:38:09
just guessing here... but did you (un~)check the option "printer-specific format" to see if that has any impact?
It must be somewhere in the printer's properties tabs... on/around the "spool" stuff... sorry, have no OS/2 at hand right now... perhaps this has some effect? I found that sometimes it does the trick (for certain printer models and connection variants). Hope it helps.

  Hi man!

  I tried to disable the "Printer specific format" in "Queue Options" tab, but it didn't work. Unfortunately. :(
  I think I will need to keep printing from Windows through VirtualPC. :(

  Thanks anyway.