Printing Problem

If you are using W2K as your desktop OS and NW client 4.7 or 4.8, you are likely experiencing an issue with NWSPOOL.DLL. At Start/Settings/Printers open the printer and look at the title bar for that printers window. Does it say something to the effect of "error could not open printer - retrying"?
If so login on to a win95,98 or NT box and check the queue there. Do you see the job?
This only occurs in queue based environments. I am having the same problem at one of my sites. I am going to implement NDPS. (out of the frying pan and into the fire?)

It sounds to me like a printer language problem. make sure that the print cue/drivers are talking the printers correct language. Novell supports a couple of different protocols (PAP, QMS, NDPS, JetDirect, IPP). To initiate the printing it uses LPR/LPD but to actually print the PDL (PCL/postscript) must be set correctly. Hope this helps.

A little bit more information would be helpful.
1) Was the printer ever working previous to your question?
2) Was anything changed recently?
3) What type of printer is it?
4) Where are the print drivers located(server/client)

I had the same problem. Try reinstalling the OS. It will definitely work.

Rgds.
Gurpreet

What kind of print queues are you printing to from the workstation, Bindery or NDS? I have noticed that NDS exhibit this kind of behavour.

I have a problem with situations like this, where I want to identify the problem and then solve it, when in fact sometimes the appropriate solution is the obvious one. Delete the printer object and recreate it, might just be the solution. Make sure your have the latest drivers for the O.S., and try both bindery and nds queues when installing. I'm no genius, but I know what has worked in our enviroment, 98 seems to be the most flexable where NT and 2000 aren't.

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