Unable to print large files 1

[abovebrd]

I am unable to print large documents on one of my okidata printers. After about 10 to 20 pages I start to get ghost characters appearing. It looks like maybe its loosing its handshake or something ?&nbsp;&nbsp;I believe there was a fix for this. I just can not remember what it is.<br><br>Any ideas <p>-Danny<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[edfair]

for starters try xon-xoff on the oki and the serial port. Over time have become less enamored of other handshakes.<br>My ultimate solution would be to convert it to parallel and use a s/p converter with built in buffer. Put in a meg of memory and see if you ever overrun it. <p>Ed Fair<br><a href=mailto: efair@atlnet.com> efair@atlnet.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. <br>
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[AndyBo]

This used to happen a lot to me, until I discovered the joys of Xon/Xoff &nbsp;&nbsp;Usually around page 14, or 12 if it was a dense print, things would start to go wrong.<br><br>As Ed says, set Xon/Xoff handshaking on the printer and you should be OK.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you still have problems you will need to amend the stty mode settings in the printer interface file so that they include ixon, ixoff and -ixany. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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[Welshbird]

I seem to remember that you are using an intel network printing box for this (from your form feed problem). If that is still the case, try editing the /etc/printcap file, and adding a &quot;mx#nnnn&quot; to the end of the line referring to your network oki printer. nnnn is the number of blocks for the new maximum. The default is something like 1MB.<br><br>This means &quot;maximum file size sendable&quot; or some such. Note that fields entered into this file are delimited with &quot;:&quot; too.<br><br>This is on the &quot;man printcap&quot; help pages if my memory is faulty.<br> <p>Fiona Williams<br><a href=mailto:willif@mosspharmacy.co.uk>willif@mosspharmacy.co.uk</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[donthaveone]

I would say you might also want to look at slowing down communication - had the same problem on an epson FX1150 and slowing down print jobs to 2400 and using xon-xoff was able to print larger jobs on a serial printer w/ limited memory

 

[abovebrd]

Thanks for all the help,<br><br>donthaveone,willif,AndyBo,edfair<br><br>I had to ameand the following stty settings in my interface script to to get xon/off working. Once I did that the printer worked great. It is no longer an isse.<br><br>ixon -ixany<br><br>My hat is off to all of you, Thanks again<br><br><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <p>-Danny<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>