Chris Hill ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: SIMPKINS, Terry wrote:

: > I have connected an HP2563B with a parallel interface to my 3000 via
: > an HP
: > external JetDirect card.
: > In the NPCONFIG.PUB.SYS file I have only one line:
: > 100 (network_address - 149.223.135.002)
: >
: > I can start the spooler and send files to it.  The only problem is
: > that they
: > are coming compressed.
: > Is there an environment file in the HPENV.SYS group that I should be
: > using?
: > They all "sound" like they go to laser printers, not dot matrix
: > printers.
: >
: > I have reset the printer, but still compressed.
: > Any ideas?
: >
: > Terry Simpkins
: > [log in to unmask]

:   Terry,

: Try using a file equation  :file printer;dev=100;env=tt22.pub.sys  this
: will use the standard printer drivers for none parity spooled printers.
: Should take care of compressed printing.

Specifying tt22 is *not* a good idea for a network printer.  The env pro-
cessor is driven by file code.  For a TTYPE file, it inserts an FDEVICE-
CONTROL 192 with the name of the env file as data.  Serially connected
printers (rather, their Logical Device Managers) know how to deal with
this file name.  The network printing spooler ignores and discards this
particular FDEVICECONTROL, as it is not relevant to network printing, so
your ENV specification is ignored.

If your *only* line in NPCONFIG is the printer's IP address, then one of
two things is happening:
o   Your printer's hardware is configured to default to compressed mode.
    The spooler resets its printer to user defaults at the start of each
    spool file so that settings from the previous job do not affect the
    current one.

o   The data in your spool file (or in any ENV file that might have been
    prepended with an ENV keyword) contains the control sequence to set the
    printer into compressed mode.

The spooler does not insert such a sequence on its own.  Furthermore, if
the spool file data includes the compression control sequence, there is no
ENV file which can help you, as any ENV file data is sent first, and the
spool file data would merely override and cancel anything you did with the
ENV file.  Thus, even if TT22 could work as suggested, it wouldn't do any
good.

I suggest you check for either or both of the two conditions I outlined
above.

-Larry "MPE/iX Spoolers 'R' Us" Byler-