Technical data

DCPS Version 1.4 Information

13.1 DCPS Version 1.4 Highlights

The following list provides a brief description of the signiﬁcant changes included

in DECprint Supervisor Version 1.4. You can ﬁnd more information for several of

these changes elsewhere in these release notes.

• Communication with printers via Raw TCP/IP Sockets

• Support for the following printers:

HP LaserJet 4MV

HP LaserJet 5M (monochrome version)

HP LaserJet 5SiMX

Lexmark Optra Rt+

• Automatic stopping and restarting of active DCPS queues during installation

• Support for Process Software MultiNet for OpenVMS Software for IP

connectivity

• Revised hardcopy documentation

• A minimum supported OpenVMS version of 6.1

13.2 DCPS Version 1.4 Fixes

This section lists problems that have been corrected in DCPS V1.4.

13.2.1 Only One Bin Gets a Separator Page if Collating Without

OUTPUT_TRAY

If the default output tray for the LN17ps was set to the collator and a SHEET_

COUNT=n parameter for the print job was speciﬁed without also specifying the

OUTPUT_TRAY=xxx parameter, only one copy of any separator page (job burst,

ﬂag, or trailer page) would be generated. Further, such pages would be delivered

to random bins.

13.2.2 LN17ps Printer Hangs in Processing State

When the LN17ps collator was speciﬁed as the default output tray and the input

tray was MANUAL_FEED, the printer would hang when the speciﬁed SHEET_

COUNT was greater than one.

This error occurred most often while printing trailer pages.

On some occasions, a blank data sheet was sent to the collator just prior to the

printer hanging.

This problem is attributed to both a bug in the LN17ps printer and in DCPS V1.3.

With the DCPS V1.4 ﬁx, you are unlikely to see this problem.

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