Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcmi!hdr!zycor!bill From: bill@zycor.UUCP (bill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Microport V/AT Printer Spooler non-Problem Keywords: Microport lp hangs non-bug Message-ID: <122@zycor.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 15:49:36 GMT References: <1559@ssc.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@zycor.UUCP (bill) Organization: zycor, Inc. - Omaha, NE Lines: 21 In article <1559@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes: } I suggested they swipe a printer from their DOS machine to get } things running. They have a Brother printer. When they plugged it in } printing took off. } } About 1 hour later they called back. Things had stopped working. An } lpstat showed the old "printer spooler bug" - idle printer but files in } the queue. This is only one data point but it sounds to me like there is } a difference between Centronics and Centronics compatible. I have a Epson Rx-80 and a Panasonic KX-P3151 for nice output. The Epson works fine. If I plug in the Panasonic instead, the system prints for about 2 minutes then crashes. This is with a Herc graphics card (mono). I have not tried swapping cards yet... In any case, this would lead me to the same conclusion as above - there is some difference between compatible and compatible. -- Bill Mahoney bill@zycor.UUCP Sorry Sen. Bison, but you're no Yacc Kennedy...