Oce TDS300 Problems

[metalboy]

Having problems printing to a Oce TDS300. Problem is say I send a 46 page pdf to the printer I may get 20-30 pages of it and it crashes the PCL (computer connecting the scanner and printer).

My PDF's contain line drawings created from AutoCAD. I have tried printing from Foxit, Brava, and Acrobat Reader with all the same results. Has anyone run into this or have an idea of what I could try to do?

Our local repair guys says we need to buy the postscript software for the machine and will not even touch it. We have not always had this problem I know in the past I have been able to print 100+ page documents with no issues. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Cliff]

You could print in groups of 10 pages or so, ie 1-10 11-20 etc.

maybe its one page jamming the works.

Also I have seen , resaving under another name ( no special character like _ / etc ) in the name.

Resave under a different version of acrobat. it may well be your rip but I would think its file related, there are numerous option during saving.

 

[metalboy]

Yeah grouping in pages works but that's just the point why/what is causing it problems? Its not ideal to print them in sets.

How much difference would the postscript make?

It seems like the printer is reaching a maximum memory or something and then at that point it just locks up. Requiring a reboot at that point then everything that was queued is dumped.

 

[metalboy]

So I definitely have found that setmemory is full. Does anyone know if having the postscript installed will make file sizes smaller?

Does anyone know if the setmemory can be increased?

 

[Cliff]

from users manual

Clear set memory

The set memory indicates the available memory. If an error occurs, for example
the set memory reaches its limits, you must clear the set memory.
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Clear set memory
1 Press the On-line key to put the printer off-line.
2 Select the ‘System’ item with the
or
key.
3 Press Next/select to enter the ‘System’ menu.
4 Enter the password to get access.
5 Select the ‘Clear setmem’ item with the
or
key.
6 Press Next/select to enter the ‘Clear setmem’ menu.
7 Select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ with the
or
key.
8 Press Next/select to confirm the setting.
9 Press On-line to put the printer on-line again.
10 Turn ‘off’ and ‘on’ the controller.



set memory page 85

System Administrator settings
The Océ TDS300 System Administrator is responsible for:
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Poker settings
Printer language controller settings
Pen settings
Page Description Language (PDL) settings
Controller identification settings
Set memory reservation settings
Connectivity settings.
To modify the System Administrator settings you have to access the SA
settings in the Océ Settings Editor.
There are two types of System Administrator settings (see figure 20):
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Printer
System


window will have memory settings

The Océ TDS300 System Administrator is responsible for:
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Poker settings
Printer language controller settings
Pen settings
Page Description Language (PDL) settings
Controller identification settings
Set memory reservation settings
Connectivity settings.
To modify the System Administrator settings you have to access the SA
settings in the Océ Settings Editor.
There are two types of System Administrator settings (see figure 20):
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â– 
Printer
System