Thank you to everyone who responded to my e-mail concerning the Samsung
Printer. I ended up having to take the Samsung printer back and purchased
the HPLJ 1320. As soon as I hooked it up, it printed with no problems.
However, as I was warned, those printers not tested by the NMR manufacturer
may not work on all systems, so proceed with caution. Following are the
e-mail responses I received:
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We have a Samsung ML-2251 network printer that we do a lot of vnmr plots to.
It works fine. I also have a ML-1450 attached to my office PC, and like it.
Good quality for price.
*****
You mentioned a GDI printer. That is a printer with no internal memory. Such
printers are only supported by Win98, Win Me for instance .
I have such an EPSON GDI printer which I have to decomission because I use
Windows 2000 now.
Unfortunately EPSON does not support drivers for suche printers under
Windows 2000 any more.
I would really propose to use a Postscript printer. They are more expensive
but you have more chances of compatibility in different environments.
*****
I don't know what the throughput i your lab is, but I would suggest a
printer that has a high duty cycle. That is in the 100,000
pages per month range. Yes, the HP4250 costs $873 (www.provantage.com) in a
non-network version, but the printer will probably print well for many
years before you have to do anything. I have 4 HP 5000DN printers that are
5 years old and the only thing that I had to change was the paper
separator for $35 at the end of the third year. The printers have printed
more than 100,000 pages each. Oh, and consider how many pages the toner
cartridge will print. There are so called extra capacity ones that will
print about twice the number of pages for just 50% more. You can even buy
"recycled" toner cartridges that are of good quality. This will plug right
into the SUN Blade 100's parallel port. So my suggestion is to
figure out the cost benefit of this printer on a per year basis plus the
setup time required. I think it will have already paid for itself, and
you won't have to buy another one for several years.
*****
We use HP Laserjet 2200dn (net-workable). They hold almost a full ream but
we still manage to burn more than half a case of paper a week from only 2
that are shared by 5 instruments and a couple workstations.
*****
Sounds like you are having printer problems. It has been my experience that
there are three main types of printers out today:
1. GDI or Windows Graphic Device Instruction. These types take the GUI
graphic instructions Microsoft Windows uses and directly interprets them.
This means less parts and therefore cheaper, but they usually only work with
Microsoft Windows.
2. PCL or Printer Control Language was an HP creation and was used in all
early Laser Printers from HP. It is a standard emulated by many laser and
inkjet printers today.
3. Postscript. This is an older standard used by most Unix and Macintosh
computers. Some HP and other printers emulate this mode as well as PCL.
Linux has some drivers for PCL, but its "standard" is postscript. In
general, if it is a Unix or Macintosh system use a postscript printer. The
extra cost will be more than recovered by the plug and play rater than
fighting with drivers.
*****
It is frustrating that printing is not reliable at all. Even if you buy an
HP laserjet, chances are that it will not work. One thing has worked for me
and I thought you might give it a try. It is a "parallel autoswitch" (for 2
computers to share one printer), which should cost about $10. Put it in
between Sun and the printer, the data will spool better and printing will be
OK.
*****
Original e-mail below:
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> From: Hoeglund, Adrienne [mailto:AHoeglund_at_aoc-resins.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:39 AM
> To: 'AMMRL'
> Subject: RE: Samsung Printer
I apologize for three postings today, it looks like I have nothing else to
do!!! :-)
Anyhow, I was just out looking at the CDW web site and examining the printer
information. And I believe I just discovered the problem.....the language
for the Samsung is GDI. I took a loot at the HPLJ 1320 and noticed that the
language is listed as PCL 5E, PCL 6, PostScript 2 and states that
postscript support is standard. So, it looks like I am going to be
returning the Samsung this afternoon and purchasing the HP.
However, if anyone gets this e-mail prior to 2:00pm CST and knows how I can
overcome this problem, please feel free to phone me at 1-901-854-7236.
Thanks so much for everything!!!
Adrienne
P.S. I will still post a summary of responses I receive.
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> From: Hoeglund, Adrienne
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:19 AM
> To: 'AMMRL'
> Subject: RE: Samsung Printer
If I may add to this message, since I first posted my e-mail this morning, I
have tried the following:
- installing the printer using makePrinter
- purchasing a new parallel cable
The funny thing is, the first time I install the printer, regardless of
which method I use (./adddevices or ./makePrinter), the first thing I try to
print will activate the rollers on the printer, but it will not print.
Everytime after that, the green lights will flash, but nothing else will
happen.
And, if I am not being too bold, would you mind letting me know which brand
and model printer you are using on your system? If I end up not being able
to get this to work, I would like to purchase a printer that I know does
work on this system (SunBlade 100, Solaris v. 8 and VNMR 6.1C - all recent
patches loaded).
Thanks.
Adrienne
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> From: Hoeglund, Adrienne
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:19 AM
> To: AMMRL
> Subject: Samsung Printer
Happy Monday,
I was wondering if anyone has attached a Samsung printer to their system?
As some of you will remember, back in November of last year I was having all
kinds of problems with my HP 5L. I asked about attaching an HP 1012 and
that ended up not working (it was a USB printer and I never could get the
system to recognize it). So, I put the old printer back on the system and
it finally died. I went Saturday and purchased a brand new Samsung laser
printer (model ML-1740). I came into work and spent the better part of the
evening trying to get it to print, and it wouldn't.
I tried using every driver in the VNMR set-up and what would happen is the
lights on the printer would flash, but it would never print. At one point,
I tried typing
lpstat -t | lp -d printername. When I did the first time, the rollers on
the printer started turning and then it just stopped. After that, the
greens lights would flash, but that was it.
Does anyone have any suggestions for something I can try? Should I buy a
new parallel cable, could that be the problem? And if you happen to know
the Samsung doesn't work, please let me know so I can take it back and try
something else.
Thank you for any suggestions you could pass my way. I will post a summary
of responses.
Thanks so much,
Adrienne
Adrienne B. Hoeglund
NMR Specialist
AOC, LLC.
950 Highway 57 East
Collierville, TN 38017
(901) 854-2800 ext. 532 - work
(901) 853-1582 - fax
www.aoc-resins.com
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 14:59:32 MST