Hello friends, Sub: Configuring printers under DTC (dtc16/mx). OS : mpe/ix ver 5.0 Breif info: I have 1 hp dot matrix printer and 2 Laser prinetrs (Troy and IIID) , all to be connected under DTC. Detailed info: I have connected dot matrix printer under DTc using profile PR22D24. It is working fine. Similarly I did configure Troy and IIID laser printers using the profile PR22D96. For this, 2 dev classes have been assigned. Assigned Ldevs 201 and 202 respectively and validated successfully. After issuing print command, the following msgs appears on the screen. 13:43/152/Output spooler, LDEV #201 : The spooler could not complete outout o FILE O1100.out.hpspool Native Mode Spooler message 9511 13:43/152/Output spooler, LDEV #201: The file system reported a device error during header processing. Native Mode Spooler message 9539 13:43/152/Output spooler, LDEV #201: FDEVICECONTROL error 13:43/152/Printer Storage manager;device is off-line printer storage manager message 23 13:43/152/The device is off-line Low level I/O message 204 13:43/152/Output spooler, LDEV #201: stopped ------- The following are the PR22D96 profile contents: Profile name PR22D96 Printer Type 22 Line Speed 9600 Rec Width 132 Modem Type 0 Modem Behav 0 Parity NONE Init Spool Y NILO N Hand Shake N device class: lptroy and lp3d lptroy is assigned to ldev 201 and lp3d is assigned to ldev 202. Moreover I am attaching the "Self-test" contents of Laserjet IIID printer. PRINTING MENU: COPIES =1 FONT SOURCE =I FONT NUMBER =0 DUPLEX =OFF TRAY =BOTH PAPER =LETTER ORIENTATION =P FORM =60 LINES MANUAL FEED =OFF SYM SET =ROMAN-8 CONFIGURATION MENU: AUTO CONT =ON I/O =SERIAL SERIAL =RS-232 BAUD RATE =9600 ROBUST XON =ON DTR POLARITY =HI RET =MEDIUM ------ Please suggest me what are the other parameters to be checked or assigned? And share your experience if you have faced any nice problems like this. [ Pls reply to me directly as I did not subscribe for this list ] --- Thanks & Regards, Mani A K TCS-HP, Madras, India. Email: [log in to unmask]