Re: HELP!!! I'm missing a page from a BIG file

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From: Gail Songer
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 14:49

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In article <1195@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: 
|> Your problem points out a general mistake in general.  It appears that the
|> software that runs a laser printer dumps the page currently printing when
|> there is a jam.  I thinks this SUCKS THE BIG ONE.  Many a time I get a jam
|> in my printer and lose a page that I have to spend time getting to print
|> again.

I think it depends on when the jam occurs.  If the paper jams BEFORE
Postscript and the printer can get the entire image on the page(be it
in fresh toner or ink or whatever), then the page can be printed again.  
If it happens afterward, there is no way to reprint it because the page 
is just not there.  It would greatly decrease throughput if each page 
must be kept in memory until the page hits the output bin, memory that
is needed to start a new page.

Gail Songer
songer@expert.cc.purdue.edu
expert.cc.purdue.edu!songer
purccvm(songer)

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From: songer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Gail Songer)
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