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- From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: OS/2 printing bug???
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:37:14 GMT
- Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
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- Message-ID: <stanton.464.714850634@haas.berkeley.edu>
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- I've always been a little unsure about whether OS/2 printing quite does what
- it should. I think now that it doesn't. I have a HP LJIII attached to LPT1
- on my machine, but it also has a PS cartridge installed. For some reason,
- sending a PS file to LPT1 when the PCL driver is selected results in
- flashing lights from the printer, but no outpu. I assume this is because the
- PS interpreter gets confused by some PCL reset code that gets sent.
-
- As a result, I defined a printer object using IBMNULL pointing to
- LPT1. This nicely dumps anything I send to LPT1 straight at the printer,
- which is mostly what I want.
-
- However, sometimes I want to use PCL mode. For example, it would be nice to
- get a PRINT SCREEN to work. So I installed the PCL driver, pointing to
- LPT2, which I redirected to LPT1. I also defined the PCL driver as the
- default printer. Now I can still dump whatever I want at LPT1 (which is
- still attached to IBMNULL). When I press the Print Screen button, and look
- at the PCL object queue, I see evidence of activity. It tells me a job is
- spooling, then printing. However, nothing ever comes out of the printer, and
- the light on the front of the printer doesn't even blink. If I direct the
- PCL object to print to a file, it does so fine, and I can then send it to
- LPT1 to print it, but this isn't what I want to have to do.
-
- Am I missing something, or is it doing something wrong here? Is there
- another convenient way to achieve what I want?
-
- Richard Stanton
-