PrintMonitor: LaserWriter Timeout Messages



If a few users are on the same network sharing a LaserWriter and one of them
has sent a print job of many (say 100) pages to the LaserWriter, then the
others have to wait for that job to be finished to capture the
LaserWriter for their print job.

If they work under MultiFinder, and background printing has been activated in
the Chooser, during the large print job, the print jobs of others will be
spooled to their local disks without being canceled because of a timeout error.

Perhaps you can tell me if PrintMonitor has its own timeout mechanism and if
so, is it possible to alter the timeout values by patching some code/resource?

PrintMonitor returns the message in question after the LaserWriter returns
a timeout error. We occupied a system for over two hours, and, after
releasing it, PrintMonitor printed the file that had been spooled.

If you are seeing excessive timeout errors, we suggest changing the timeout
limits. To do this, see the Tech Info Library article, "LaserWriter: How
to Change the Manual Timeout".


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012