Re: Printer Weirdness

[jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry's response wondering if anybody was responding to an error message made me wonder if a reply list entry could be involved.  

John McKee
-----Original message-----
From: "Jim Franz" franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:33:39 -0500
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Printer Weirdness

> Chuck - the last one (voice on same line) is possibly part of the the issue. 
> As others have
> mentioned, timing is very different in this kind of circuit. Voice will (by 
> the providers definition, often not under your control) will take priority.
> Your provider should be able to give you a report as to whether packets are
> being dropped due to overloaded/undersized pipe and the priorities for types 
> of traffic. I've had a customer switch to something similar and remote sites 
> was a big problem (and the salesman said "we can handle it"-just buy 
> more...).
> Did they do any pre-testing of the orig circuit & how much flows in these 
> print jobs? Unbuffered (there really is some buffer, just not huge amounts 
> of memory) printing requires a fine tuning of pacing & timeouts, as well as 
> priority settings so that a phone call in the middle of printing, or an 
> upload of a sales presentation or the usual online music, stock feeds and 
> inappropriate material flowing on your network - all of these need to be 
> addressed.
> Jim Franz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 1:39 PM
> Subject: RE: Printer Weirdness
>
>
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > We are on V6R1 and we were current as of a few weeks ago.
> >
> > Depending on which model of 4230 they are either Type *IPDS or 3812
> >
> > I'm not seeing printer emulation in this description(?)
> >
> > Timeout value where?
> >
> > And yes on voice.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
> > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:55 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Printer Weirdness
> >
> > Chuck,
> > Before going to far in guessing the issue -
> > what OS release (& are you current with the "printing ptf group (SF99356
> > for
> > 6.1)"
> > how are the 4230's defined on system
> > what emulation is the printer set for (ibm version or epson)
> > have you changed any parms in timeout values for moving to diff network?
> > and are you by any chance sharing this line with "voice"?
> > Jim Franz
> >
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