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- From: goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard)
- Subject: Re: Print Manager Woes
- Message-ID: <goudswaa.713639810@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug12.154647.22266@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:16:50 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donn C Young) writes:
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- >I've just installed an Intel SatisFAXtion board in my 486 clone. The
- >board came with a crippled version of Intel FAXability software for
- >Windows where you set up the fax as a printer device. Nice to fax stuff
- >from WfW etc. Howsomever, when someone faxes stuff to my machine, the
- >Intel software hangs onto the document, makes you "save" it as a *.DCX
- >file. Then, you've got to break it up into *.PCX files using a DOS
- >command (outside Windows). Then, I import the images into WfW or
- >Paintbrush and print.
-
- >My problem: I've got this one page WfW document with a single PCX image
- >(about 200K). When I go to print the damn thing, Print Manager keeps
- >halting with the dreaded stop sign and a message that says "The printer
- >on LPT1 is not responding. Check the printer or increase the
- >Transmission Retry value (it's 120 sec.) ... and resume the print
- >queue." What's going on??? After 12 minutes pm says its completed 44%
- >of 202K and crashes again.
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- >I have a 486/50 clone with 16 Mb ram with a HP Laserjet III w/2Mb
- >optional memory in addition to its stnd 1 Mb internal memory and a
- >official HP Postscript cartridge. I'm running Win 3.1 and WfW 2.0.
- >Why does this thing balk at a measly little 200K file?? Why does print
- >manager take 15+ minutes to send this thing over a parallel port??
- >With all that memory I thought it'd be zapped over in no time at all.
-
- >Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-
- >Donn Young, Biostatistics Unit dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- >OSU Cancer Center 614/293-3075
-
- Just a guess, but what happens if you disable the print manager?
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