Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

2083.0. "LPB4 PORT PRINT with a VT220 Pb" by EVTAI1::MORVAN () Thu Jan 14 1993 15:01

    Hello,
    
    One of my customer has the following pb:
    
    with ALL-IN-1 3.0 French
    	 an LPB4 Canon port printer.
    
    If he print from a vt4200 to PORT LPB4 (with a customized printer
    table) no problem.
    If he uses a VT220 instead of the vt420 he cannot print accentuated
    characters and semi graphics characters.
    In both test he uses the same ALL-IN-1 account and the same connection.
    
    After more tests we discovered that:
    
    1)The pb persists if the vt220 is connected to the vax by a DHU11
    interface .
    
    2)It is nearly corrected if the vt220 is connected to a port of a
    decserver 200 . But the terminal needs the caracteristic: SOFT instead
    of HARD. The only pb is that in this case tne printer does not seem to
    understand the initialisation sequence ( <ESC>c in the printer table).
    A little horizontal arrow appears on the screen.
    The customer must generate a form feed on the printer.
    And the semi graphics characters are not printed.
    
    This is an upgraded ALL-IN-1 and with his old 2.4 lpb4 printer table
    this customer did not have any pb. (except perhaps for semi graphics
    caracters)
    
    
	My questions are :
    
    1) Could some one explain me the reason of the 1) point ?
    2) How to solve the pb of init in the point 2) ?
    
    Thanks for any help
    
    Genevieve MORVAN
    French Telephon Support Center
    

What are the VT220 terminal Printer settings, and are they different from 
the VT420 terminal printer settings?

If VT220 Printer settings are 7-bit try changing it to 8-bit No parity.


Richard