Re: hp4000 printers

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 07:34:07AM -0800, Albert Kinderman wrote:

> Peter Samuel wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Robert Valliant wrote:
> >
> > > Printing this vanilla file on an hp4000N printer results in a nicely
> > > printed page, but there is a second page with the word "undefine"
> > > printed 1 inch from the bottom and about 1.25 inches from the left
> > > margin. It must be 72 pt type. So not all of it fits.
> >
> > "undefine".
> 
> However, when I create a postscript file with lout and then print it
> downstairs on the secretary's HP4M (postscript) printer by using a
> copy command from a dos prompt, the last page is an extra page with
> a large TIMEOUT printed on it.

Hmm, I guess it has something to do with job cotrol, like sending a
Ctrl-D after the job.

I guess that "undefined" is caused by *extra* Ctrl-D when printer is
configured to *not* expect it, and "timeout" is caused by the *lack*
of Ctrl-D when printer *is* configured to expect it.

SY, Uwe
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