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Printer printing half page

 
Swain
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Printer printing half page

Hi,

I have set up my printer que as follows

$ sh que/full sys$printer
Printer queue SYS$PRINTER, idle, on STELLA::"x.x.x.x:9100", mounted form DEFAULT
/BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=DEFAULT) Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM
/PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:SM) /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)

$ sh que/full AMS$PRINT80
Printer queue AMS$PRINT80, idle, on RUVIN::"x.x.x.x:9100", mounted form WIDE
/BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FORM=WIDE) Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:SM)
/SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)

These are printer ques on 2 different servers. In first case the printouts are half page. In 2nd case, the last character of each line is missing in prints.

Could anyone tell what is the issue?

P.S. In 1st case,

$ set que/DEFAULT=(nofeed,FORM=wide)/form_mounted=wide sys$printer
%JBC-E-NOSUCHFORM, no such form
2 REPLIES 2
Swain
Regular Advisor

Re: Printer printing half page

I have some more issues.

2 different queues on the same server having same settings. but the printout is not coming for one que.

Hakan Zanderau ( Anders
Trusted Contributor

Re: Printer printing half page

FORMS are used to format the output.

$ SHOW QUEUE/FORM/FULL

To define a form

$ DEFINE/FORM 'name' 'number'

Hakan

AKA "The Diplomead Printerguru"
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