From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX"  4-JUN-1992 01:30:06.27
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Subj:	Re: DECprint Printing Services on Non-DEC printers

In article <1JUN199215041765@basil> michael@basil (M.SMYTH) writes:
>
>I was toiling over a new installation of DECprint Printing Services V4.0
>(CPS) when it occured to me that some one on the net may be able to help.
>I am trying to use CPS to drive a NEC Silentwriter 2. It is a Postscript
>laser printer and not one on the list of DEC supported printers. The
>printer is connected to the system through a LAT terminal server. I can
>copy a Postscript test file to the printer and it works. Hence it is
>communicating correctly. But when I create queues through CPS and try to
>submit the job it will not work. The queue stalls and messages come out
>on the console stating the printer is not ready.
>	Can anyone help me. I think that library can be tailored to suit
>the printer but my postscript experience is non-existant.
>
>					thanks
>					mike. 
>P.S. I am using VMS 5.4-3. 
>
>From: michael@redgum.bcae.oz.au (m smyth)
>Organization: UCNV, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

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>I have installed CPS 4.1 (Printer Services stuff). I have looked at the
>LTLOAD and check the port creation. That all checks.
>
>However, CPS not talk to either one of my printers :-(. The printers receive
>no (zip) data from CPS; but CPS comes back with an error message of
>"stalled" from either one of the queues.

I had the same problem with a HP Laserjet IIP.
When CPS talks to a HP LJII it assumes it's a Scripprinter
and sends LPS$$LN03R_INITPSDEVICE.TXT to it, which is some initialization 
that contains something about papersize and a4tray that the HPLJII does 
not understand (that's why postscript is standardized ...), anyway you have
to extract this module and remove that part. below ist the text that i use.
do a 
$ set def sys$common:[syslib]

copy that text into a file in sys$share thats called 
LPS$$LN03R_INITPSDEVICE.TXT
and do a 
$ lib/repl/text LPS$$LN03R_INITPSDEVICE CPS$DEVCTL
then stop/que/reset all execution queues, reset your printers, and restart 
the queues.
I don't know everybody else handles this as i guess this should be a 
frequent problem, but i haven't seen it mentioned.

I guess i'm not violating any copyrights here:

statusdict begin/returnstatus{(%%[ ReturnStatus: )print(0123456789)cvs
print counttomark{counttomark -1 roll( ")print print(")print}repeat
pop( ]%%\n)print flush} end

the rest thats in the file is to be dropped