Print Spooling and Print Servers

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Black6

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I have a plotter connected to a print server and periodically have problems with particularly complex drawings filling the plotter memory and only printing part of the drawing. When spooling the print job, is the entire job sent to the printer? Would I be better off to have the plotter connected directly to a computer?
 
Black6 said:
I have a plotter connected to a print server and periodically have problems with particularly complex drawings filling the plotter memory and only printing part of the drawing. When spooling the print job, is the entire job sent to the printer? Would I be better off to have the plotter connected directly to a computer?
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Yeah, because if the RAM on the plotter were to overload itself, in this case it is, then it would use the RAM on the local machine.

Does the plotter accept more RAM?
 
When you say print server .. is it a tcp-ip printserver? Is it a HP printerserver that is internal or exteral to the plotter? (does the plotter have a ethernet jack on it) If so it's internal and you are good to go.

Is the plotter a HP? Does it not have a ethernet port? go buy a HPjetdirect card, and install it on the plotter. Now if you have a office printserver add the plotter to that server (add new tcp-ip port inside printers) and share it out.

You will still have the plotter connected via tcp-ip but the windows printserver will be taking care of spooling the jobs.

Thats the way everyone does it.
 
I was able to add MB of RAM which should help. I haven't needed to use the plotter since.

The plotter is an HP 750C and I have one of the Linksys parallel port TCP/IPA print servers. I'll have to look for a HPjetdirect card.

Thanks
 
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