Newsgroups: bit.listserv.win3-l
Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:18:05 EST
From:         Andy Mavrias <andym@550SHERB.LAN.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Win 3.1,ATM,QMS-860

Howdy folks,

	Here's one that has me rather stumped and just a little peeved.
Our department recently purchased a QMS-860 printer (600 DPI, RISC-based
processor, etc, etc..) the output from this printer is fantastic! -when it
works.

	Our design team is running Windows 3.1, Adobe type manager w/200+
fonts, CorelDRAW! 3.0 (rev.B), and Ventura 4.01 (rev. B) - all through
Ethernet connections on a Novell Network.  Aside from all the other
problems we've had, here's what seems to be happening;

	The printer has two hard drives connected to store all the fonts,
HOWEVER - it appears that the software is either unaware of this fact, or
is not making use of them as they never get accessed while the printer
processes a job.

	On a friends' recommendation, I removed all the .PFB font info
from WIN.INI as this is supposed to force the printer to recognize the
fact that the fonts are stored in HD.  This worked! - once. After the
first time, and after stupidly modifying ALL 7 of the designer's setups,
it would no longer print properly from Ventura - the file would be sent,
would be processed, but appears to be missing end-of-job info as the
printer sits there saying "waiting for input - end job?" and any attempt
to reply (following the instructions in the manual of course), seems to
have no effect.

	Now here's where it gets a little trickier(more tricky?).  The
drivers for the 860 follow the old win 3.0 format of one postscript
driver, and then choose from the listed printers. Since we are also
running a Lino 300 typesetter, which I received and installed updated
drivers for, the fact that the 860 driver tries to overwrite THIS
postscript driver was not appreciated.  Following instructions in the text
file on the QMS diskette, I renamed the file PSCRIPT.DRV to QMSPS.DRV.
Then, when that totally screwed up, I figured out how to modify WIN.INI in
order to recognize the changed driver name. Now, the Lino 300 and the
QMS-PS2200 both use the newer PSCRIPT.DRV, while the 860 is using
QMSPS.DRV.  This appears to be only half of the solution. Now I seem to
need to create a font listing for the QMS driver, however, in the
definition of printers section of WIN.INI it defines PRINTER1 as a
PS2200v51 and PRINTER2 as LINO3_v49, so I added PRINTER3 as QMS860 (the
name of the WPD file for the 860, the other two are the WPD files for the
respected printers). In the last two sections of WIN.INI, each printer is
defined, stating which driver it uses, and what port it is connected to
(all of mine are LPT1, I just change Queue assignments).  All of the font
info is in a section called [POSTSCRIPT,LPT1]. My questions are: is the QMS
driver aware of this font info? or do I have to create another font
section specifically for it? if so, what do I call it? as far as I can
see, POSTSCRIPT is not the name of a driver, nor a .WPD.

	Well, I realize this is a very lengthy and rather technical post,
but we have had this printer for over a month now and I have been
struggling daily with this for most of it. As far as QMS tech support
goes? I give them a very large raspberry for the 'hmm, there must be a big
problem, but we don't know the solution, so we'll just ignore it and hope
it goes away.'. AAAAARGH!

	anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA,
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