You could try changing the "idle timeout" value on the jetdirect card to
zero. (I believe the default value is 60 or 90 seconds.)

This will disable the idle timeout feature altogether and could solve this
problem for you.


At 11:07 AM 2004-08-04, Steve Davidek wrote:
>I have two laserjet 9000 printers connected using jetdirect and configured
>exactly the same in the npconfig file.  The newest printer added is having
>problems with "printing delay's" ie:  reports will start printing and
>pause for long periods of time (60 seconds or more) in the middle the
>report - sometimes multiple times in the same report.
>
>I don't have anything special set on the printers in npconfig, just the IP
>address.  Our global settings are:
>
>Global (setup_file = nothing.hpenv.sys
>message_interval = 60
>banner_header = False
>banner_trailer = False)
>
>I've tried changing the msg interval, but that hasn't helped.
>
>Am I missing any other setting that I should have in npconfig?  THanks.
>
>Steve Davidek
>Systems Administrator
>The City of Sparks, Nevada
>
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