From: wwueb4@gipsy36.cs.uni-sb.de (Christian Schmolzi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help! OS/2 can't talk to printer anymore....
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:33:13 GMT
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Thomas Wong (twong@civil.ubc.ca) wrote:
: I don't know what happened. It's been working fine....
: 
: Background: I have a 486 with a Laserjet IIIP with postscript cartridge.
: So I have 2 printer icons on my desktop, one for plain LJ IIIP and the
: other for LJ IIIP with postscript (with the appropriate printer driver
: selected is basically the difference. Both defined as using LPT1). The
: plain LJ IIIP is set as default printer. This has worked since the
: original OS/2 I first bought. And with the service pack installed, it
: still worked fine. Am still using OS/2 with Service Pack (not 2.1 beta).
: In fact, I printing Xmas stuff right on Xmas day and it worked fine.
: This was the last time I used it.
: 
: Problem: This week, I tried to print something and it won't print.
: Finally, it came back with a message saying "Printer not responding!!
: Retry?". I checked the printer and it looked ok. I checked everything. I
: left the LJ IIIP as default printer, checked the settings and the right
: printer driver was selected and lpt1 was still selected. Nothing has
: changed. But I tested again and again and nothing even went to the
: printer cause the light didn't even blink. So as far as OS/2 is
: concerned, it can't even start talking to the printer. Well good thing I
: didn't trust OS/2 and installed Boot Manager at the beginning so that I
: can still boot DOS. (I have to say, I still have to boot DOS every once
: in awhile cause I'm still finding limitations of OS/2's DOS emulation
: such that I still need the real thing to run some of my DOS programs. Or
: somethings under OS/2 just doesn't work like this printer business).
: (But I do like OS/2 cause I do use it most of the time and only go back
: to DOS when I just can't do some things at all. I just wish OS/2 will
: finally clean things up in 2.1 so that I can stay in OS/2 period).
: Anyways, back to my story. I can still boot DOS and print things fine
: under DOS, Windows, everything still works fine under DOS. Some of the
: simplest things that worked under DOS but not OS/2 was something as
: silly as "echo > prn" and "echo > lpt1:" under the DOS prompt even. Not
: even using a program. I've checked all my settings for my printer icon.
: Both icons. Still using LJ IIIP as default so don't have to worry about
: the PS stuff.
: 
This is not a unique problem! A friend of mine has just installed OS/2 2.0
on his i486 with 16MB RAM. He has the same problem using his HP Laserjet
IIIP (2MB RAM). In his case, the Printer LED blinks for about 5 seconds
to indicate that something IS transmitted to the printer. But then
suddenly it stops and after 45 seconds the same error message appears as
described above. He is very frustrated now, so if anybody knows what's
going wrong, please answer!

Thanks in advance!
Christian

### Christian Schmolzi, Universitaet des Saarlandes ###
### Saabruecken, Germany                            ###
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