OT: sco openserver 5.0.7 / LP Services / Filepro

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Nancy Palmquist propounded (on Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:42:44AM -0500):
| Doug Luurs wrote:
| 
| >Lately one of my printers is throwning a fit for no reason that I can
| >see.
| >
| >You will be in filepro dclerk updating a record, hit "F" for print menu,
| >and 
| >it prints the report (via dreport) and posts the required data.
| >
| >Once the report is done running, the LP Services kicks in to phyiscally
| >print 
| >the report to the printer, and I get a :-
| >
| >    UX:lp: ERROR: Can't establish contact with the LP print service.
| >
| >    TO FIX: Either the LP print service has stopped, or all message
| >channels are busy.
| >    If the problem continues, get help from your system administrator.
| >
| >This only happens on this one printer.  All other printers on the
| >network run fine, and
| >Never get this message..
| >
| >Has anyone else run into this problem before ?
| 
| I had an old filePro output format that did that when we upgraded to a 
| new printer.  It turned out we had a print code that told the new 
| printer to disconnect in the form.  You might want to try the print job 
| by printing to a file, with and without any print codes.  Then see if 
| the file causes the printer to do this when it is sent from the command 
| line like Ken suggested with the same command you used in the 
| Destination for that printer.

What exactly is a command which tells a printer to disconnect?  In what
way does a printer disconnect?

-- 
JP