Print problem with 6.1

Perhaps someone can help with a print problem I have under QNX RtP 6.1.

I have a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4L printer and my attempt to print with it
resulted in one page of blurry print and then a continuous stream of blank,
apart from the occasional blurry line on the bottom or top of a page, paper.

Not content with denuding my stock of paper, and not printing a four page
document, it tries to do so at every boot. Unless I cancel the print job,
every time I boot, it precedes to stream blank paper. If I look in the print
jobs pending there is nothing.

What’s to be done?

Well first of all, find out where the data is coming from. Is it
possible that non-volatile ram in the printer is remembering?
Make sure you pull the plug on the HP for a while in case it
keeps the buffer that way. The off switch is not necessarily
sufficient.

Once you quiet the printer down, I’d take a close look at your
printer setup to make sure all is setup correctly. Finally,
I’d try testing some very simple text files.

Previously, debugdeuser wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:

Perhaps someone can help with a print problem I have under QNX RtP 6.1.

I have a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4L printer and my attempt to print with it
resulted in one page of blurry print and then a continuous stream of blank,
apart from the occasional blurry line on the bottom or top of a page, paper.

Not content with denuding my stock of paper, and not printing a four page
document, it tries to do so at every boot. Unless I cancel the print job,
every time I boot, it precedes to stream blank paper. If I look in the print
jobs pending there is nothing.

What’s to be done?
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Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

Thanks for the suggestion; but its not the printer, as I’ve used it
in-between booting to QNX in other OS’s without problems. Anyway, I tend to
pull the plug when I power down at night so I would already have followed
your suggestion by default, without result. The only other OS I’ve had
problems printing with the HP4L is BeOS.

When I boot into QNX next I’ll, once again, check the printer set-up. Can’t
say anything struck me as problematic, but then what do I know.

Perhaps, as I had to do with BeOS, I could use some other method of
printing. Is Ghostscript, or similar, available for QNX Rtp?


“Mitchell Schoenbrun” <maschoen@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.010713211958.1989B@schoenbrun.com

Well first of all, find out where the data is coming from. Is it
possible that non-volatile ram in the printer is remembering?
Make sure you pull the plug on the HP for a while in case it
keeps the buffer that way. The off switch is not necessarily
sufficient.

Once you quiet the printer down, I’d take a close look at your
printer setup to make sure all is setup correctly. Finally,
I’d try testing some very simple text files.

Previously, debugdeuser wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:
Perhaps someone can help with a print problem I have under QNX RtP 6.1.

I have a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4L printer and my attempt to print
with it
resulted in one page of blurry print and then a continuous stream of
blank,
apart from the occasional blurry line on the bottom or top of a page,
paper.

Not content with denuding my stock of paper, and not printing a four
page
document, it tries to do so at every boot. Unless I cancel the print
job,
every time I boot, it precedes to stream blank paper. If I look in the
print
jobs pending there is nothing.

What’s to be done?



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Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com

You should check to see if you have any spool files that
your spooler might keep trying to print.

Previously, debugdeuser wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.newuser:

Thanks for the suggestion; but its not the printer, as I’ve used it
in-between booting to QNX in other OS’s without problems. Anyway, I tend to
pull the plug when I power down at night so I would already have followed
your suggestion by default, without result. The only other OS I’ve had
problems printing with the HP4L is BeOS.

When I boot into QNX next I’ll, once again, check the printer set-up. Can’t
say anything struck me as problematic, but then what do I know.

Perhaps, as I had to do with BeOS, I could use some other method of
printing. Is Ghostscript, or similar, available for QNX Rtp?

Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com