4019-E P/S printer and AIX 3.1 (3002)

[Zvika Bar-Deroma]

I've got an IBM4019-E printer, with the PostScript option connected (via
the parallel  port) to a model  320, running AIX 3.1  (3002). Everything
seems o.k. with the setting, till -  the printer runs out of paper. Then
I get a "fatal error" messsage on the console, and go to add paper. When
this has been  done, and the printer  is ready to continue,  I return to
the  console, where  a "lpq"  command reveals  a staus  of DOWN  to that
queue. Starting it causes the percent-count  of the lpq command to start
from 0 and  "run" till the percentage where the  printing stopped due to
lack of paper is reached (without any printouts) and then....nothing, no
printouts, no files in the queue, big nothing !

The queue was configured using SMIT, as 4019 parallel PostScript and
it is the default queue. Any solutions to the problems ?

BTW - configuring a similar queue for an HP-LJIII, using IBM's advice
in a "HOW-TO" paper, works o.k. for it, and when there's no more paper
in the tray, you just add some paper, and the printing continues, just
as one would expect.

Anybody knows how to handle it ? AWD ppl. - you must have a 4019-E to
be able to give some solid advice on that problem...

/Zvika


Zvika Bar-Deroma                                  Phone: (+972)-4-292706
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering,                 Fax  : (+972)-4-231848
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Israel

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