LaserWriter Select 310: Printing Problems from Workstation(3/94)


A customer has a LaserWriter Select 310 with 5MB RAM connected to a Sun workstation using the serial port.

Very small PostScript files print fine, but when a nominal size PostScript
file is sent to the printer, it blinks then resets itself without printing
anything. What is causing this to happen?

There are a couple of things that the customer can try, as well as verify:

1) Make certain that the printer has not been previously communicating to a
Macintosh within the current power cycle. If so, the LaserWriter Select
310 driver puts the printer into a special serial communications mode.
To solve this, turn off the power to the printer, then turn it back on.

2) Set the communications on the Sun for:

57.6 Kbaud (try 38.4 Kbaud if 57.6 fails), two stop bits, no parity,
8 data bits

3) Verify that the PostScript code, or the driver generating it, is
producing good code. You might try sending the code to another printer.


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Published Date: Feb 19, 2012