Dear All DU folk,
Thank you all for your quick and most helpful and problem-solving
ideas.
Specifically:
Ian Mortimer, Sue Gray (BOTH good Down Under folk), Tom Webster, Mark
Zander, Doug Johnson, Aideen McConville
Arena Vincenzo and Jim Smart.
Original query:
>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.
>
>
ANSWER
Three possibilities.
First, and simplest and immediately adopted:
Add entry to /etc/services
myservice 9100/tcp
then change /etc/printcap entry "lp" to
:lp=_at_printserver/myservice:\
and add
:ct=tcp:\
This institutes telnet printing through unix port direct to HP card and also
allows for filtering, rotation etc.
Second, and it appears most widely adopted elsewhere
Create pseudo, local, print queue using "of" parm as pointer to user-created
script which filters print job through user-created filter-file (various
options from file with full escape sequences to file with just "^L", and
pipes that output through lpr to basic remote print queue.
Example of "of=/usr/lbin/myfilter:\" file
/bin/cat - /usr/lbin/formfeed | lpr -Premote
formfeed file only has "^L" contect.
A little more difficult to manage but allows for good maleability.
Third, and total problem-solving option but a little bit of work:
Trash BSD's LPR and replace with LPRng. LPRng's site is:
http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html
As yet not installed this but have downloaded.
For all who have adopted above two options give this site a read, the
product looks pretty smart.
Again thanks all. I found a few similar questions in archives but nothing
that quite solved my problem.
I hope this summary is helpful and correct.
Received on Wed Aug 26 1998 - 23:58:05 NZST