This really hasn't a whole lot to do with our HP3000, other than the 
fact that the HP3000 is on the other end of the WAN.  But I know 
there are JetDirect users out there who may be able to help, so here 
goes:

We had a 10Base2 LAN in our accounting office with three PC's (WIN95 
peer-to-peer) and a LJIII on a JetDirect (external) box.  Printing 
worked well, with only occasional problems printing massive runs of 
bar code labels on 2 x 2, legal size label stock.  We just converted 
them over to a 10BaseT network which now goes through a 3Com hub and 
Cisco router over frame relay to our HP3000.  We ran cables to each 
PC and one also for the JetDirect box so everything is connected via 
the hub.  After connecting everything together, The LJIII would print 
"normal" (memos, letters, etc) print jobs just fine, but when we sent 
the massive bar code label job to it, it would get "confused" and print 
"funny" labels.  This never happened using the old network.  After 
messing around with various cables and reloading the print drivers, 
etc., we just gave up and connected the LJIII directly to one of the 
PC's, slaved it off of that, and shared it to the other PC's.  This 
not only cured the "confusion" problem, but everything prints much, 
much faster now.

So, my question is: what good is this JetDirect box?  It obviously 
doesn't work for us, but is it because of an inherent problem 
with the JetDirect box, or some configuration problem on our 
part?

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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