From: "Robert Comer" 

> You and that darn AS400 .

I can't help that it works extremely for me. 

fwiw, I was only talking about Windows, my AS/400 PDF printer driver was a
tad expensive and not as easy to set up, so I'm not really wild about it.
(it's full featured forms software as well)  Not to mention that the
printer subsystem on the AS400 isn't the most robust thing I've ever seen
either.

It's only better in stability than the NT spooler because of no badly coded
third party drivers, but it doesn't support normal printers nearly well
enough and when using lpr/lpd, it's not all that great even if that printer
is supported. (lpr/lpd is not the only way to print, just that it works on
more printers.)

> command to get the queue to try the printer again or else it will stay
> backed up forever. At least NT doesn't require this manual intervention,
> it
> just sends to the printer when it comes back online automatically.

The AS/400 is more like your AIX than windows when it comes to printers.

- Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:42ff9ed2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Interesting, I use both Acrobat and a shareware pdf printer and haven't
> hit
>> that problem, though the NT spooler service isn't the most robust thing
> I've
>> ever seen.
>
> You and that darn AS400 .
>
> It's more robust than the AIX printing system, get this. On aix if I shut
> a
> network printer off the queue backs up, when the printer comes back online
> I
> have to issue a
>
> enq -U -Pprintername
>
> command to get the queue to try the printer again or else it will stay
> backed up forever. At least NT doesn't require this manual intervention,
> it
> just sends to the printer when it comes back online automatically.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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