Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I have a 4247 printer, using IBM 4202 Model 3 Proprinter III XL, sending system generated print jobs to its queue. What occurs occassionaly is that jobs are being sent to the printer, while in a Ready state, and the jobs begin printing. The first job completes, but is still displayed in queue and the remaining jobs fail to print. The queue status displays Running eventhough no jobs are printing. Once initiating the cancel command on the job that printed, the remaining jobs then pass through the queue. I made the point to say this occurs occassionally because this does not occur during every job submission. There is no particular situation that I can attribute this to.

I would like to know if anyone has experienced this, and/or has any insight on the source of this problem and how I may resolve it. I do not know if it is a problem between machine and driver, or how my AIX is communicating to the printer.

All thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I haven't seen this particular issue. I assume you are using network printing, and this sounds like maybe there is a failure in the final handshake to release the driver. You might use 'ps -ef | grep pio' to see what process is running at the time. You might have to get a little more creative on this, and then if you can identify the process. The fact that the printing completes and that a cancel allows the other jobs to complete indicates this has to be at the end of the job.
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