I had a somewhat similar problem with printing to a NewGen Imager Plus 12,
which is as I understand a fairly common printer in the Mac world.  My
problem was with an NT4 workstation.  When the end-user printed to the IP12,
the file was sent to the NT4W print server then on to a Sun Sparcstation.  At
the Sparcstation the file was sent on to the NewGen.  The NewGen would
indicate that it was processing data, but then print nothing.

Turns out I didn't have the exact driver I needed for the IP12.  The folks at
NewGen assured me that using IP12XF drivers would work fine.  Well, it
didn't.  After doing some more research I found an NT4 driver for the IP12.
Now the printer will print but it's slow and not all of the functionality,
(e.g.  PostScript), work as they should.  My advice is to avoid mixing and
matching NT4, Unix, and Mac.


Dharam Bhardwaj wrote:

> I have previously  posted this probelm on previous occasions but did  not
> get any response. Here is an update on the problem and what I have done
> about it:
> Printer is connected via com2 to a pentium / NT4S. It only prints very
> small (2 pages of text only - no graphics , regular fonts). Anything
> larger goes throuth the 'spooling' cycle and then gets purged. The
> printer works well on other OSs(MAC, NeXT, Windows95).
> Eventually, I contacted MS Support, they could  not give me  an answer
> but did promise to get back the next day after they  had a chance t
> reproduce the  scenario.That was a week ago. I did not hear back.  I have
> tried 'direct printing' and a couple of other  options with little
> success.
> Any help, opinions welcomed.
> >From the recent posts, it appears someone else has a similar issue - I
> did not keep track of the thread or the originator.


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