Chris queries the list:

>Is anyone out there successfully using MPE/iX 5.5 network printing to print
>to HP Laserjet 5Si printers (with Jetdirect cards)???
>
>We are having problems with anything longer than a dozen or so pages...what
>appears to be timeouts of some sort (as well as occasional messages about
>invalid PJL sequences being received from the printers).
>
>I've got an open HPRC call; just curious if there was anyone out there using
>them successfully. The only references in the 3000-l archives was Ted trying
>them, and he ended up resorting to a third party spooling package.
>
>We've tried enabling/disabling pjl, jam recovery, and snmp -- all to no
>avail. Short reports print ok (mostly). The spooler "hangs" (spooler n;show
>shows waiting on EOD) while a spoolfile shows active and nothing prints.
>The spooler has to be stopped/restarted to get it printing again, and the
>operators get tired after 30 or 40 resets each day... ;-(

A number of our customers use network printing to lj5si's with hp jetdirect
cards with great success. We also have a lj5si, but use RAC on our 937 for
network printing, but I did use hp's network printing from a 917
here on a recent project and I never had a problem.

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