Can't print from 1.2R

I've had ecs 1.2R installed on a laptop for some time now but have only 
just found out that printing does not work. I have a printer installed 
and it all looks ok, but on printing a job, the job just disappears and 
does not print. It is not a hardware problem in that running XP on this 
dual boot machine gives correct printing (parallel port in both cases).
I believe I have covered angles such as is the driver using the right 
port (LPT1).
Any suggestions anyone?
Regards

Hi Peter

Peter J Seymour wrote:
> I've had ecs 1.2R installed on a laptop for some time now but have only 
> just found out that printing does not work. I have a printer installed 
> and it all looks ok, but on printing a job, the job just disappears and 
> does not print. It is not a hardware problem in that running XP on this 
> dual boot machine gives correct printing (parallel port in both cases).
> I believe I have covered angles such as is the driver using the right 
> port (LPT1).
> Any suggestions anyone?
> Regards
> Peter


What printer, which driver and build of driver are involved?

If you have previously installed and/or uninstalled printers/drivers you 
may want to have a look at what prndrv.exe lists about printers, drivers 
and queues as they may not be what you expect. A mismatch on what you 
expect can cause print jobs to disappear into the ether.

The app, prndrv.exe, was an accessory to PMFaxworks - if I remember 
correctly - and I am not sure where to get a copy from these days...

Aha! Found a copy here  http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/faxworks/prndrv.exe


Regards

Hi Peter,

> So, a conjecture based on my experience would be that parallel port 
> printing doesn't work in 1.2R, but usb printing does.


For what its worth, Parallel port printing works fine to my Epson 
Photo Stylus 720 using eCS 1.2R. Its USB printing that I can't seem to
get working. The USB printer is detected and printer make/model (and 
printer ROM Level) is correctly identified, but output goes into a big
hole somewhere. That may be because I have to use the Stylus 700 
driver..........;-(

Cheers.....................pk.

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Peter Brown wrote:
> Hi Peter
> 
> Peter J Seymour wrote:
> 
>> I've had ecs 1.2R installed on a laptop for some time now but have 
>> only just found out that printing does not work. I have a printer 
>> installed and it all looks ok, but on printing a job, the job just 
>> disappears and does not print. It is not a hardware problem in that 
>> running XP on this dual boot machine gives correct printing (parallel 
>> port in both cases).
>> I believe I have covered angles such as is the driver using the right 
>> port (LPT1).
>> Any suggestions anyone?
>> Regards
>> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> What printer, which driver and build of driver are involved?
> 
> If you have previously installed and/or uninstalled printers/drivers you 
> may want to have a look at what prndrv.exe lists about printers, drivers 
> and queues as they may not be what you expect. A mismatch on what you 
> expect can cause print jobs to disappear into the ether.
> 
> The app, prndrv.exe, was an accessory to PMFaxworks - if I remember 
> correctly - and I am not sure where to get a copy from these days...
> 
> Aha! Found a copy here  http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/faxworks/prndrv.exe
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete
I used prndrv.exe to look at the printer setup on the laptop and it 
looked ok and was basically similar to the setup from my desktop (where 
the latter has additional printers installed). So that didn't seem to 
help as such, although it was interesting to have a handy way of seeing 
the information.
I then noticed that the driver version in use on the laptop was earlier 
than the installation default version. (30.800 versus 30.827). I suspect 
this happened as a result of copying files from the desktop when 
fiddling with pin.exe to install a recent printer.
Reverting to the more correct later driver, re-installing the port 
driver and selecting a similar but not correct printer (not available in 
the installation list), I tried again. Still no output to the printer on 
the parallel port and, what was worse, java.exe was now crashing in 
pscript.drv.
Noting that the printer had a usb port, I decided to try that route. I 
wasn't particularly watching what happened, but plugging in the usb 
cable seemed to cause a new printer object to appear with the correct 
port already selected. And best of all, printing functioned correctly to 
USB.
Now I just have to use pin.exe to get the correct printer specified in 
the driver again, but I don't anticipate any problems with that.
So, a conjecture based on my experience would be that parallel port 
printing doesn't work in 1.2R, but usb printing does.

Hi Peter

Just noticed there are a few of us involved...  :-)

Peter J Seymour wrote:
> Peter Brown wrote:
>> Hi Peter
>>
>> Peter J Seymour wrote:
>>
>>> I've had ecs 1.2R installed on a laptop for some time now but have

>>> only just found out that printing does not work. I have a printer 
>>> installed and it all looks ok, but on printing a job, the job just

>>> disappears and does not print. It is not a hardware problem in that

>>> running XP on this dual boot machine gives correct printing
(parallel 
>>> port in both cases).
>>> I believe I have covered angles such as is the driver using the
right 
>>> port (LPT1).
>>> Any suggestions anyone?
>>> Regards
>>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> What printer, which driver and build of driver are involved?
>>
>> If you have previously installed and/or uninstalled printers/drivers 
>> you may want to have a look at what prndrv.exe lists about printers, 
>> drivers and queues as they may not be what you expect. A mismatch on 
>> what you expect can cause print jobs to disappear into the ether.
>>
>> The app, prndrv.exe, was an accessory to PMFaxworks - if I remember 
>> correctly - and I am not sure where to get a copy from these days...
>>
>> Aha! Found a copy here  
>> http://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/faxworks/prndrv.exe
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pete
> I used prndrv.exe to look at the printer setup on the laptop and it 
> looked ok and was basically similar to the setup from my desktop (where 
> the latter has additional printers installed). So that didn't seem to 
> help as such, although it was interesting to have a handy way of seeing 
> the information.
> I then noticed that the driver version in use on the laptop was earlier 
> than the installation default version. (30.800 versus 30.827). I suspect 
> this happened as a result of copying files from the desktop when 
> fiddling with pin.exe to install a recent printer.


If we are discussing pscript.drv build 30.827 I found that to be a 
non-worker for the printers that I tried it with; buildlevel 30.822 
worked fine for those printers.

I managed to get 30.822 by login at ecomstation and search for pscript 
driver which only reported 30.827 available. I used the ftp details 
provided for download via ftp to access the directory where 30.827 
resides and found the 30.822 version.


> Reverting to the more correct later driver, re-installing the port 
> driver and selecting a similar but not correct printer (not available in 
> the installation list), I tried again. Still no output to the printer on 
> the parallel port and, what was worse, java.exe was now crashing in 
> pscript.drv.


Try 30.822...


> Noting that the printer had a usb port, I decided to try that route. I 
> wasn't particularly watching what happened, but plugging in the usb 
> cable seemed to cause a new printer object to appear with the correct 
> port already selected. And best of all, printing functioned correctly to 
> USB.


Sounds like something auto-configured successfully  :-)

Which leaves us all wondering what is wrong with the LPT configuration?


> Now I just have to use pin.exe to get the correct printer specified in 
> the driver again, but I don't anticipate any problems with that.
> So, a conjecture based on my experience would be that parallel port 
> printing doesn't work in 1.2R, but usb printing does.
> Peter



I've had output to both LPT and USB ports in the past on my 1.2R system 
so the above does not sound correct to me.


I suggest retesting when you have fiddled with pin.exe to add the driver 
you want to use by creating a new printer with LPT1 selected as output.

Regards