Hello,
We recently bought a new HP Fast Printer (HP 5si) and hooked it up on our
LAN. It has a JetDirect Card in it.
I have problems configuring the printer. Most of our other printers are on
a NetWare LAN and we access them from unix via a NetWare NFS Server. We had
no problems configuring those other printer as remote (rm) and specifying
the NetWare queue name in (rp) in /etc/printcap with the lprsetup utility.
But this new printer should not be made available to the netware clients,
we only want it to be accessible from one UNIX box. It has this JetDirect
card that have an IP address of a.x.y.z, so what we did was put en entry in
/etc/hosts that looks like:
HP5SI a.x.y.z
And with lprsetup, we said the printer was remote and that its hostname was
HP5SI and that the remote printer name is "" (nothing).
We can check the status of the printer with lpq, it tells us that it is a
JetDirect printer. We can also print to the printer, but we have the
following problem:
When printing LF terminated files, the printer just prints garbage because
it is a PC printer and it expects CR/LF at the end of the lines....
I have a couple of questions regarding this printer and printing in general:
a) Did we set that printer in the correct way ? If not, how should it be
set up ?
b) How do I arrange for the printer to understand UNIX LF terminated text
output ?
c) How does someone create special queues for which the page orientation is
landscape, full duplex... and so on ?
Thanks
Guy Dallaire
dallaire_at_total.net
"God only knows if god exists"
Received on Mon Mar 17 1997 - 20:23:53 NZST