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printing problem in 9000 E45 server

Arun Kumar D — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:00:01 GMT

Sir/Mam ,

One T 6306 line printer is attached with the 9000 E45 server . It is giving garbage printing . But the same printer working fine with other PC which is loaded with MS Windows 98 . what could be the reason for this

Regards

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Arun Kumar D
HCL Infosystems Ltd .
Delhi .
India .

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Re: printing problem in 9000 E45 server

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:45:10 GMT

Shalom Arun.

Your E45 is not a PC. Different than today's servers it has little in common with a PC.

Without a specific driver for HP-UX or a jetdirect card, it won't work directly with that system.

Best bet is a samba/windows/cups compatible print server.

HP-UX/HP-9000 servers work with a much smaller universe of hardware than windows. Which is one of the reasons your system which belongs in a museum still runs today.

SEP

Re: printing problem in 9000 E45 server

Bill Hassell — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:08:10 GMT

Since there are many ways to connect the printer (parallel cable, serial cable, remote print server, HP JetDirect LAN adapter, etc), it is very hard to give you any ideas. A Google search shows that this is a Tally T6306 and it supports ASCII characters. So, how did you add the printer? Was it with SAM? If so, did you add it as a serial or parallel printer, or is it on the network? And what version of HP-UX are you running? Also, is the printout all garbage characters, or is the first line OK then the next line shifts over, etc? Are you printing a plain ASCII file such as /etc/profile?