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Dot Matrix Printers Pause in ME and XP

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by tech 1 view

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I've had this happen at several customer sites now. When using ME or XP and printing to a Dot Matrix printer from a DOS based program (and, as I understand them Windows products also) half of hte first page prints, the printer then pauses for about20 seconds and then the rest of job gets printed.

Anyone else see this happening? Any idea what causes it? How can it be resolved?

Thanks,

JOHN

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by gigelul

I have this problem with DOS app, WinNT and printers attached to the computers. If the user1 have DOS app open (full screen) and also a printer attached at his computer, the user2 from other computer who try to print to that printer have this problem. If user1 minimize de DOS app all is fine. I buy some low level print servers and I attached these printers direct to LAN.

by gigelul

Curious before that I see that a new workstation (with more resources) work more hard than an older workstation.

by rabbit_runner

We had a similar problem with our network NT4 printer server. When we rebuilt the box, after a crash, large print jobs would pause in the middle for long periods of time. This is what we learned.
First check out KB article Q179156. You must have Service Pack 4 installed (or higher). This will give you the information to change ports used by the LPR printer. We learned that this is very important, particularly for large print jobs. When a job is sent to a dot-martix printer, it is sent line by line.

Second, this is a registry edit. Go to the following key.....

HKLM / System / CurrentControlSet / Control / Print / monitors / LPR Ports / Ports / / Timeouts

Here you will find two entries (CommandTimeout and DataTimeout). Change them both to 0 (zero). You will need to do this to any problem (or all) LPR ports.

After a reboot of your server, all should work correctly

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