LPR or RAW

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We have a bunch of Epson TM-T88III Point of Sale printers with 10/100
ethernet cards. When I set them up on our Windows 2000 Server (print
server), I noticed when adding the Standard TCP/IP port it set them up as
LPR passthru devices. I changed them to RAW printing on port 9100 and they
seem to work just fine.

Today I was called because a few jobs hung up for one. I am now wondering if
I should change them back to LPR.

Is one better than the other? I set them to RAW because I remember reading
about a limited number of LPR ports and print jobs backing up because of
this. This may have been fixed since I read this.

Thanks,

Denny
 
When you use LPR Port you will have the RFC outbound port spec of 11
outbound unless you set the lpr reg key to non RFC compliance. The Standard
TCP/IP Port monitor does not comply to the 1179 RFC LPR spec. The outbound
source ports in use go from 1024 and above.

So as long as you stay with Standard TCP/IP port, the outbound tcp ports are
the same for RAW or LPR mode configured ports.

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me. So, is one suggested over the other or does
it really not matter?

Thank you,

Denny


Alan Morris said:
When you use LPR Port you will have the RFC outbound port spec of 11
outbound unless you set the lpr reg key to non RFC compliance. The
Standard TCP/IP Port monitor does not comply to the 1179 RFC LPR spec.
The outbound source ports in use go from 1024 and above.

So as long as you stay with Standard TCP/IP port, the outbound tcp ports
are the same for RAW or LPR mode configured ports.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

jokes54321 said:
We have a bunch of Epson TM-T88III Point of Sale printers with 10/100
ethernet cards. When I set them up on our Windows 2000 Server (print
server), I noticed when adding the Standard TCP/IP port it set them up as
LPR passthru devices. I changed them to RAW printing on port 9100 and
they seem to work just fine.

Today I was called because a few jobs hung up for one. I am now wondering
if I should change them back to LPR.

Is one better than the other? I set them to RAW because I remember
reading about a limited number of LPR ports and print jobs backing up
because of this. This may have been fixed since I read this.

Thanks,

Denny
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Use RAW is the device supports it. LPR otherwise.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

jokes54321 said:
Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me. So, is one suggested over the other or does
it really not matter?

Thank you,

Denny


Alan Morris said:
When you use LPR Port you will have the RFC outbound port spec of 11
outbound unless you set the lpr reg key to non RFC compliance. The
Standard TCP/IP Port monitor does not comply to the 1179 RFC LPR spec.
The outbound source ports in use go from 1024 and above.

So as long as you stay with Standard TCP/IP port, the outbound tcp ports
are the same for RAW or LPR mode configured ports.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

jokes54321 said:
We have a bunch of Epson TM-T88III Point of Sale printers with 10/100
ethernet cards. When I set them up on our Windows 2000 Server (print
server), I noticed when adding the Standard TCP/IP port it set them up
as LPR passthru devices. I changed them to RAW printing on port 9100 and
they seem to work just fine.

Today I was called because a few jobs hung up for one. I am now
wondering if I should change them back to LPR.

Is one better than the other? I set them to RAW because I remember
reading about a limited number of LPR ports and print jobs backing up
because of this. This may have been fixed since I read this.

Thanks,

Denny
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