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I am the administrator of a Novell 3.11 server which feeds
several HP LaserJet IIISi, 4, and 4M printers.  Each of
these printers is on our Ethernet (frame type Ethernet_II)
with either an Extended Systems or an HP JetDirect card.
Each one is fed by two print queues, one using PCL (and
always captured as LPT2:) and the other using PS (and always
captured as LPT3:).  The CAPTURE commands refer to PRINTCON
job definitions that are kept in a shared PRINTCON.DAT on
SYS:PUBLIC (CAPTURE.EXE has smode=5).  The PRINTCON job
definitions in turn refer to PRINTDEF printer definitions,
with the job definition for the PCL queue using the Device
Mode that sets the printer to PCL, and the definition for
the PS queue using the Device Mode that sets it to PS.  (In
other words, we use what the HP manuals call Controlled
Language Switching instead of Automatic Language Switching--
with the LaserJet IIISi, we of course don't have a choice.)

I would like to switch each printer to PostScript mode
immediately after any PCL job is printed on the printer.
(The reason I'd like to do this is that we have some Unix
machines on campus that are configured to print only to
PostScript printers, and if we have the printers always in
PostScript mode, we can print directly from those Unix
systems to our printers.)  From my reading of the Novell
NetWare 3.11 Print Server manual, if I include in the
(Re-initialize) device mode the functions that change the
printer to PostScript mode, each job using that job
definition will end with commands to switch the printer to
PostScript.

Question (if you're still with me :-) ): Will every job that
goes through the corresponding queue have the functions in
(Re-initialize) appended to it, even if the queue is
associated with the printer port without using a CAPTURE
command that refers to the PRINTCON job definition (for
instance, by going through Control Panel | Printers |
Connect in Windows 3.1x)?  If not, I don't have a way of
reliably resetting the printer to PostScript after each PCL
job, but if so, I can make a whole lot of faculty members
here very happy by enabling them to print directly off the
Unix systems (without depriving everyone of PCL printing).
-- 
Daniel M. Rosenblum, Ph.D., Microcomputer Analyst (de facto coordinator
   of computing), Faculty of Management, Rutgers University (Newark)
dmr@andromeda.rutgers.edu    180 University Ave., Newark, NJ  07102-1895
DROSENBL@gsmack.rutgers.edu         201-648-5176