Dear DU folk,
I have DU4.0D running on Alpha/SERVER 800 5/400 boxes.
I am trying to send print jobs to a remote printer (HP jetdirect
boxes / cards) and format / change orientation of same jobs. I believe that
by using remote printing there is no direct way of using the "if" and "of"
parameters in /etc/printcap. I have tried setting up an intermediate,
direct, print queue which and then pass the print jobs to the remote queue,
but again with little success.
The print jobs are sent to Unix spooler via "lpr -Pqueue_name"
Using "-O [landscape|portrait] option with lpr does not work.
Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to either rotate
the jobs using lpr, or within printcap, or how to use pseudo print queue to
on-pass jobs to remote print queue. Any help much apprecviated.
Example of remote printer setting in printcap is:
lp20|20|queue20:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp20err:\
:lp=:\
:rm=hpjetbox1:\
:rp=raw1:\
:sh:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd20:
Other DU boxes have earlier Unix and Lat-connected printers. No sweat with
these as we change "pw" and "pl" to rotate the jobs.
Received on Wed Aug 26 1998 - 05:47:59 NZST