[THIN] Re: Printing Issues - Take 2

  • From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:09:39 -0600

Are those serial printers?  What about one of those networked serial hubs?

Greg

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Doug Rooney <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Well, the SW vendor told me to get ‘print servers’ for the label printers
> and my problems would go away. Yeah right. But I did and sure enough, the
> disappearing printer issue went away, but now it takes an average of 30
> seconds for a label to print, where it used to be about 2 seconds. I call
> the vendor and he said, Oh, that is not what I meant, I meant to put PCs in
> the factories and use them as print servers’, I told him we got rid of the
> PCs and use terminals, he said “Oh, my bad”. So, what can anyone suggest for
> using a Zebra TLP-2844 label printer with a Wyse 3150SE terminal in a MSTSC
> environment server being Windows 2003 server standard fully patched? I am
> thinking it is not a Starship issue but a network printer issue.
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> Thank You
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> ~Doug Rooney
> Sonoma Tilemakers
> IT Manager
> 7750 Bell Rd.
> Windsor Ca, 95492
> (707) 837-8177 X211
> (707) 837-9472 FAX
> it@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Doug Rooney
> *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2009 9:12 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] printing issues
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> Greetings all.
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> I am having an odd issue that is driving me bonkers.
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> I have our shipping and samples departments using a Win 2k3 terminal
> server, main application is Starship, no problem, well, we decided to
> upgrade the server, so we had another terminal server, better CPU, more RAM…
> and it was not being used, so I moved user profiles to it, and all the
> Starship data files, everything is setup correctly as far as I can tell,
> but, no one can print.
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> The terminals are Wyse 3150SE with a Zebra label printer directly attached.
> They can print to other network attached laser printers, just not the label
> printer. This includes, from the printers properties screen, from notepad or
> WordPad, from Starship, logged in as the user or even Administrator, nothing
> works. But if I log out of the new server and back into the old one,
> everything works fine.
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> Anyone have any idea as to where to look?
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> Thank You
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> ~Doug Rooney
> Sonoma Tilemakers
> IT Manager
> 7750 Bell Rd.
> Windsor Ca, 95492
> (707) 837-8177 X211
> (707) 837-9472 FAX
> it@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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