Print/que=xxxx/setup=report abcd.txt --- VMS print

[Sk Noorul Hassan]

Hi,

While printing the file 'abcd' as per the subject command, two blnak pages are comming before the actual file being printed.

Is there any way to get rid of the problem and at the same time I want the report to be printed in landscape format.

[Ian Miller.]

what sort of printer is it? Can you post the result of

SHOW QUEUE/FULL xxxx

What is in the setup module 'report' ?

[Sk Noorul Hassan]

Ian,

please find the full details of the queue attached.I have no idea of 'report' module.

[atul sardana]

Dear SK
give /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)

SYSTEM_$>>sh que star_lia1/full
Printer queue STAR_LIA1, idle, on LOTUS::"10.96.5.132:4016",mounted form DEFAULT /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT(FEED,FORM=DEFAULT) Lowercase /OWNER=[FIELD,SYSTEM]/PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)

and after see in printer setup.....

Atul Sardana..

[Heinz W Genhart]

Hi

does the form DEFAULT in the device control Library MC_HP$DEVCTL contains escape sequences ? If so, try to print with a empty form. Does the problem still occure?

I had a similar problem on Printers connected via lat. My form sent more characters than the width of the LTA device was setup for. In this case it produces empty lines at the beginning.

Hope that helps

Regards

Geni

[Sk Noorul Hassan]

Atul, I tried with schedule=nosize, but same result.

[atul sardana]

See in printer setup or set all settings to default in that if you not found any problem....

[Jess Goodman]

Try defining one of these logicals (depends on what version of the VMS TCP/IP stack you are running:

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC UCX$TELNETSYM_SUPPRESS_FORMFEEDS 1
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC TCPIP$TELNETSYM_SUPPRESS_FORMFEEDS 1

[Hoff]

The collected TCP/IP Services Printing topic is available via:

http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/wizard

and specifically look for topic (1020) over there.

[Phil.Howell]

and to print in landscape you will have to embed the relevant PCL codes in your report setup module - this should be in sysdevctl.tlb
Phil

[Robert Atkinson]

I've attached the device control library modules that you need to insert into MC_HP$DEVCTL.

The queue should look something like this when it's finished :-

Printer queue ACC_HP1, idle, on BETA::"HPLJ4:9100", mounted form HP_LASERJET_LAND (stock=DEFAULT)
/AUTOSTART_ON=(BETA::"HPLJ4:9100") /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FORM=HP_LASERJET_LAND (stock=DEFAULT)) Lowercase
/OWNER=[SYSGRP,SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) /RETAIN=ERROR /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE) /LIBRARY=MC_HP$DEVCTL
ALPHA_ROB$

These should give you both portrait and landscape printing.

As pointed out, you will also need to define these logicals :-

(LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)

"TCPIP$TELNETSYM_IDLE_TIMEOUT" = "0 00:00:10.00"
"TCPIP$TELNETSYM_RETRY_INTERVAL" = "0 00:00:30.00"
"TCPIP$TELNETSYM_SUPPRESS_FORMFEEDS" = "34"

Robert.

[Robert Atkinson]

And the landscape module....