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In article <31DEC199209514502@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>, rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <35.2b41ce0c@wrglex>, l_seibert@wrglex writes...
>> 
>>I have a problem to use a postscript printer as a postscript printer under VMS.
>>The printer is a Brother HL-10PS, it is connected serial with the DECserver200 
>>and everything is working fine as long as I use it as a text printer, but as
>>soon as I send a postscript file or I connect it to a queue created with DEC's 
>>CPS-software, it doesn't print anything. If it is connected to a text queue, 
>>the printer tells me IGNORE DATA. If it is connected to a CPS queue, it takes
>>sometime and then the queue is stalled.
>
>The CPS software inquires from the printer as to what kind of printer it is.
>If its not recognized, it assumes DEC LN03R (Scriptprinter), and utilizes 
>vendor and model specific knowledge in communicating to the "LN03R".  Of
>course, if its not an LN03R, that's likely not to work.  

Ah, but if you have no genuine LN03R printers in your system then try to 
replace the module LPS$$LN03R_INITPSDEVICE in SYS$LIBRARY:CPS$DEVCTL.TLB
with the following:

% Copyright 1988, 1989, Digital
% V2.1-2a
% Modified for non-LN03R printers (papersize and papertray stuff removed)
statusdict begin/returnstatus{(%%[ ReturnStatus: )print(0123456789)cvs
print counttomark{counttomark -1 roll( ")print print(")print}repeat
pop( ]%%\n)print flush} end

Extract these 6 lines to the file LPS$$LN03R_INITPSDEVICE.TXT and do a 
library/text/replace on the device control library.  Happy printing!

CAVEAT: You may run into problems if you also have LN03R printers! In that
        case you can create a module with the missing stuff and send that
	as a SETUP to your genuine LN03R printers (include that as part of
	the queue definitions in the CPS startup file).
AND:	Whatever you do, make a copy of the original .TLB file before you
	start playing...

Cheers


Bernhard
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