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    Netport(R) & Netport II Print Server: Hardware Compatibility

    Contents:

    • PRINTER COMPATIBILITY SUMMARY TABLE
    • PC DOS BASED
    • GENERAL PRINTER COMPATIBILITY
    • PC OS/2 BASED
    • ABATON LASER PRINTER
    • APPLE LASERWRITER II NT
    • MACINTOSH
    • APPLE LASERWRITER II
    • CITOH 3500
    • DATA PRODUCTS LB 615
    • HP LASERJET III WITH ASP SERVERJET
    • HP LASERJET IV
    • NEC 890 POSTSCRIPT PRINTER
    • OKIDATA 321
    • OTC (OUTPUT DATA CORPORATION)
    • PANASONIC 1564
    • PRINTRONIX P300
    • QMS 410
    • QUME 4125 DOT MATRIX PRINTER
    • SPECTROSTAR COLOR LASER PRINTER
    • TEKTRONIX PHASER PX
    • PLOTTER COMPATIBILITY SUMMARY TABLE
    
    

    PRINTER COMPATIBILITY SUMMARY TABLE

    
       Printer                            Source        Compatibility
    
    
    General Printer Compatibility Abaton Laser Printer Customer Conditional Apple Laserwriter II NT Conditional Apple Laserwriter II Conditional Citoh 3500 Customer Incompatible Data Products LB 615 Customer Incompatible HP LaserJet Series II Intel Compatible HP LaserJet Series IID Intel Compatible HP LaserJet III Intel Compatible HP LaserJet IV Intel Compatible HP LaserJet III w/ASP ServerJet Customer Conditional HP DeskJet Plus Intel Compatible IBM Proprinter 4019 Customer Compatible Mutoh XP500/XP501 plotter Customer Compatible NEC 890 Customer Conditional NEC 90XL (990) NEC Compatible NEC Silent Writer 90 & 95 NEC Compatible Okidata 321 Customer Incompatible OTC (Output Data Corp) Customer Conditional Panasonic 1564 Customer Conditional Printronix P300 Customer Conditional Printronix P3040 Intel Compatible Printronix P6280 Intel Compatible Panasonic KX 1595 Intel Compatible QMS-PS 810 Intel Compatible QMS 410 Customer Conditional Qume 4125 Dot Matrix Customer Incompatible Spectrostar Color Laser Printer Customer Conditional Tektronix Phaser PX Conditional

    PC DOS BASED

    
       NetPort(R) print servers are COMPATIBLE with PC DOS based systems.
    
    
    
    

    GENERAL PRINTER COMPATIBILITY

    
       NetPort(R) is compatible with printers using a standard Centronics
    
       parallel port or an RS232 serial port.
    
    
    
    

    PC OS/2 BASED

    
       Although NetPort(R) operates as a remote printer or print server on a
    
       LAN containing OS/2 workstations and you can print from OS/2
    
       applications, you must run the NetPort utilities from a DOS workstation.
    
    
    
    

    ABATON LASER PRINTER

    
       Customer reports that the Abaton Laser printer would work with a
    
       NetPort(R) (original) but not with the NetPort II.
    
    
    
    

    APPLE LASERWRITER II NT

    
       Symptom
    
       When printing to a Apple Laserwriter II NT Printer via the NetPort(R)
    
       (serial interface) the upper 128 characters may misprint.  These upper
    
       128 character misprints will usually be displayed by special characters
    
       being printed as something else.  
    
    
    
       Description
    
       The Apple Laserwriter II NT by default is configured for "SPACE"  parity
    
       which does not enable the upper 128 characters.   By using "MARK" parity
    
       the full character set is obtainable. 
    
    
    
       Solution
    
       Obtain the "LWSET"  file. Then copy this to the printer (apple
    
       environment) or copy / print  this file to the printer (dos
    
       environment).  The file "LWSET" reconfigures the printer via the
    
       postscript options and enables mark parity. The file is available
    
       through Intel's online services.
    
    
    
       The file contains:
    
    
    
       ---------------------------------------------------
    
    
    
       serverdict begin 0 exitserver
    
       sttusdict begin 25 9600 71 setsccbatch
    
       "control-d"
    
       ---------------------------------------------------
    
    
    
       Explanation of these three lines:   The first line "serverdict begin 0
    
       exitserverdict" is a postscript specific command that enables changes
    
       (persistent parameters) to be written to the printer. 
    
    
    
       There are two type of prameters that can be written, persistent and
    
       volatile.  The persistent prameters are permanent (printer may be
    
       power-cycled without losing the new configuration).
    
    
    
       The "0" zero in the "serverdict begin"  line is the default password. 
    
       It can be changed to any value but remember what it's changed to. 
    
       Suggestion - leave the password at "0" zero.
    
    
    
       The actual parameters are contained in the "statusdict begin 25 9600 71
    
       setsccbatch" line.
    
    
    
       The "statusdict begin" enables the changing of parameters.  The "25 9600
    
       71" are part of the "setsccbatch"  parameter which are used for
    
       communications prams.
    
    
    
       Specifically - "25" indicates the RS-232 Port
    
                           "9600" indicates the baud rate
    
                           "71" indicates MARK parity
    
    
    
       The third line contains one character only which indicates the end end
    
       of job .  This character (on third line by it's self, the diamond) is
    
       the "CTRL-D" character (end the job).
    
    
    
    

    MACINTOSH

    
       An Apple MAC can print to a NetPort(R) if the file server is running
    
       NetWare for Mac NLM version 3.01 (early versions of Netware for MAC did
    
       NOT work) and the NetPort is in remote printer mode. NetWare for MAC
    
       allows for a MAC, to print to network queues, that are service by
    
       pserver.nlm.  Previous to version 3.01, only a AppleTalk print server
    
       could service print jobs sent from a MAC.
    
    
    
    

    APPLE LASERWRITER II

    
       This printer works fine with NetPort(R) through the serial interface. 
    
       Printer switches must be set so that SW1 is DOWN and SW2 DOWN.  Other
    
       settings can be set as you wish.
    
    
    
       NetPort serial port should be configured to: 96,n,8,1,X or D,120,200.
    
    
    
       The Apple manual says to use 7 data bits, but that setting doesn't work
    
       with NetPort.  You must use 8 data bits.
    
    
    
       LaserWriter Switch Settings
    
    
    
       SW1 up   & SW2 up:    LocalTalk enabled
    
       SW1 down & SW2 up:    Serial port enabled at 1200 baud
    
       SW1 up   & SW2 down:  Serial port enabled 9600 baud (RS-232 & RS-422)
    
       SW1 down & SW2 down:  Serial port enabled 9600 baud (RS-232 only)
    
       SW3 up   & SW4 up:    postscript batch
    
       SW3 down & SW4 up:    Diablo 530
    
       SW3 down & SW4 down:  H/P laserjet
    
       SW3 up   & SW4 down:  postscript interactive
    
       SW5 down & SW6 down:  XON/XOFF
    
       SW5 up   & SW6 up:    XON/XOFF    (yes, this is correct)
    
       SW5 down & SW6 up:    Etx/Ack
    
       SW5 up   & SW6 down:  DSR
    
    
    
    

    CITOH 3500

    
       Customer reports that the NetPort(R) will not work with the Citoh 3500
    
       on the  parallel port.  The pinout is not a standard Centronics pinout. 
    
       It is missing some pins that we require.
    
    
    
    

    DATA PRODUCTS LB 615

    
       Customer reports that the NetPort(R) would not work with the Data
    
       Products LB 615 on either the Serial or Parallel port.  It dropped
    
       random carriage returns, 1-2 times a page.
    
    
    
    

    HP LASERJET III WITH ASP SERVERJET

    
       Customer reports that the NetPort(R) must be installed first then the
    
       ServerJet.  This leaves the ServerJet in the factory default INPUT mode.
    
        If you install the NetPort after installing the ServerJet, the
    
       ServerJet changes to the OUTPUT mode and will not work correctly.
    
       Symptoms are that jobs seem to disappear and jobs that do print do not
    
       complete.
    
    
    
       ServerJets are boards that plug into the LaserJet I/O slot and provide
    
       one parallel port and three RS232 ports.  The LaserJet is then set to
    
       Optional rather than Parallel mode.
    
    
    
    

    HP LASERJET IV

    
       Product:  NetPort(R) II print server
    
    
    
       Symptom
    
       Customer reports that garbage prints out when printing from Windows
    
       applications to a HP LaserJet IV printer.  Problem only occurs when the
    
       resolution of the printer is set to 300 dpi.
    
    
    
       Description
    
       A printer driver seems to be causing the problem.
    
    
    
       Solution
    
       Changing the resolution of the printer to 600dpi solves this problem.
    
    
    
    

    NEC 890 POSTSCRIPT PRINTER

    
       We have had a number of customers report that this printer is not
    
       compatible with the NetPort(R) II parallel port 1 when the Printer is in
    
       Postscript mode.  Large documents print one or two pages and then fail
    
       with a postscript error.  If the printer is set to PCL mode it works
    
       fine.
    
    
    
       Parallel port 2 works fine in either mode.
    
    
    
    

    OKIDATA 321

    
       Customer reports that the NetPort(R) will not work with the Okidata 321
    
       on the parallel port.  The pinout is not a standard Centronics pinout. 
    
       It is missing some pins that we require.
    
    
    
       Okidata puts 5 volts on pin 18.  They suggest:
    
    
    
         *  Try a different cable
    
    
    
         *  AT YOUR OWN RISK:
    
    
    
       Remove 5 volts from pin 18 by:
    
    
    
         1. Remove printer cover
    
    
    
         2. Remove jumper S3 located in the back of the proner near the
    
            parallel connector.
    
    
    
    

    OTC (OUTPUT DATA CORPORATION)

    
       Customer reports indicate that some of these printers will work with the
    
       NetPort(R) and others do not.  Customer report that the OTC 850XL and
    
       OTC 2600 will NOT work in the serial or parallel mode.
    
    
    
    

    PANASONIC 1564

    
       Customer reports that the Panasonic 1564, a high speed printer, will
    
       only work with the Parallel port I on a NetPort(R) II in the Remote
    
       printer mode if the IRQ is set to 0 (default is 7).  Without the IRQ set
    
       to 0, the printer was dropping characters.   Parallel port 2 worked
    
       fine.
    
    
    
    

    PRINTRONIX P300

    
       Customer reports that this line printer (300 lines per minute) printed 1
    
       line of garbage when connected to the NetPort(R).  The customer updated
    
       the logic board in the printer and now it works fine.
    
    
    
    

    QMS 410

    
       Customer reports that the QMS 410 does not work with the NetPort(R) II
    
       parallel port 1.  It will work on the parallel port 2 and on the serial
    
       port.
    
    
    
    

    QUME 4125 DOT MATRIX PRINTER

    
       Customer reports that the Qume 4125 Dot Matrix printer (parallel port)
    
       is incompatible with the Netport(R) II running v4.25 firmware.  Parallel
    
       port 1 and 2 both failed to work.  Customer did not have an option to go
    
       to serial setup because it would cost additional money.
    
    
    
    

    SPECTROSTAR COLOR LASER PRINTER

    
       Symptom
    
       A Spectrostar color laser printer would not print when connected to
    
       either parallel port on the Netport(R) II.  Both ports were tested with
    
       an HP4 printer and tested fine.  The Spectrostar would print fine
    
       directly from a workstation.  This was tested in a Windows environment.
    
    
    
       Description
    
       The Spectrostar needs specific perameters set within Windows.  
    
    
    
       Solution
    
       Use the printer driver provided by the printer manufacturer, instead of
    
       a generic Windows printer driver.  Also increase the transmission retry
    
       count within Windows to 995. 
    
    
    
    

    TEKTRONIX PHASER PX

    
       This printer is compatible if it is configured for the parallel port by
    
       setting switch 8 ON.  If switch 8 and 9 are down, the Phaser PX printer
    
       is set to polling all ports (AppleTalk, serial and parallel) and this is
    
       not compatible with NePort(R). The serial port has not been tested.
    
    
    
    

    PLOTTER COMPATIBILITY SUMMARY TABLE

    
       Plotter                                Source        Compatibility
    
    
    H/P PaintJet XL (color plotter) Intel Compatible H/P 7475A Intel Compatible H/P Draft Pro 7570 Intel Compatible

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