Tektronix Phasershare Printer manual Testing from the PhaserShare Administrator

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Testing from the PhaserShare Administrator

The following steps provide a simple test of the Administrator:

1.Click Search Options.

2.In the Search Options dialog box, click the following radio buttons:

a.Sort by: Print Server Name

b.Select by: All Tektronix Printers

3.Click OK.

Look at the list of printers. If the Printer Name is listed as <Information Not Available>, the Administrator is unable to communicate with the printer using SNMP over IPX; this indicates that either the printer selected is an unsupported printer or the network configuration is incorrect. If the printer is not listed, check the printer’s Configuration Page for network errors.

N O T E

The PhaserShare Administrator displays an SNMP error when the client computer running the PhaserShare Administrator is not attached to a file server with the same frame type as the printer is using. The same error is displayed if a version of the PhaserShare Administrator below 3.6 is used to configure a Phaser 740, 780, or Phaser 360 printer. The Printer Not Responding dialog box is displayed with the message: This printer is not responding to SNMP queries. Please check the printer and try again. Click OK and correct the problem.

Testing the file server-to-printer connection

1.First use the CAPTURE command to redirect an LPT port output to a network queue. For example:

CAPTURE NB NFF NT Q=PHASER L=1

where:

NB specifies NO BANNER

NFF specifies NO FORM FEED

NT specifies NO TABS

Q=PHASER specifies PHASER as the queue name

L=1 specifies port LPT1

2.Use any text editor to create a two-line ASCII file with the following contents:

%! showpage

3.Use the COPY command to send the file to the printer. For example, if the file is called SHOWPAGE, and the printer is assigned to LPT1, type:

COPY SHOWPAGE LPT1:

If the file server-to-printer connection is functional, the printer ejects a blank page.

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