Re: lpd network printer hangs in power saving mode

[John culleton <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 29 September 2001 10:29, Christian Schäffer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're using a Ricoh Aficio 200 printer/fax/copier maschine which is
> equipped with a network interface card (NIC 250E). The card
> is a lpd printer server and works fine as long as the maschine
> doesn't go into power saving mode. Is there any known way to
> wake up a printer from this state, perhabs using a PCL command
> string with apsfilter?
>
> Please help,
>
>   thanks alot,
>
>     Christian

My Ricoh 2000, which is direct connected, wakes up when it is sent a file. I 
use PS instead of PCL mode.

Try the Ricoh site for a script that might be of help.  They have a script 
for remote access using various flavors of Unix, (HP etc.) Linux not being 
one of them. 

I have the opposite problem. After a print job is finished the "Data In" 
light keeps flashing. Sometimes the next job will clear it, sometimes I have 
to clear it by pushing reset, and sometimes I have to turn the bloody thing 
off and on again.  And when I stretch its capablity (eg. four pages 11x17 
full of graphics) it gets very slow and temperamental. But it was very cheap 
for an 11x17 laser printer :-)

John Culleton