topic Re: Sturt-up print in Operating System - HP-UX

Sturt-up print

Wasiur Rahman_1 — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:53:25 GMT

Printer ejects a blank page or prints a character while computer start-up.

Re: Sturt-up print

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:38:14 GMT

This is hardly surprising. The printer ports are in an undefined state initially. This is very typical of parallel and serially connected devices. If this is a UNIX box, reboots are such a rare occurence that this is normally not considered a problem; moreover most printers are network devices these days and rarely suffer from this symptom. If this is a PC connected printer then you are in the wrong neighborhood.

You might also see if there is an rc script which sends characters to a port.

Re: Sturt-up print

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:44:49 GMT

Hi Wasiur,

This is very common and generaly ignored, As the printer is in a unknown state when the computer is switched on or restarted.

You can post this in the ITRC printer section to get a better response.