Hi fellow admins,
In my original question I asked who I could set up our HP4100N printer to
print in duplex mode. I must first thank the following people for their
speedy replies:
Choon-Pheng Lim <choon_pheng_at_hotmail.com>,
Roy Smith <roy_at_popmail.med.nyu.edu>,
Andrew Leahy <A.Leahy_at_cit.nepean.uws.edu.au>,
Davis <Davis_at_Tessco.Com>,
"richard n. frank" <rnfrank_at_wolfram.llnl.gov>
There seems to by a variety of options which are summarised below:
1) GNU enscript as a text-to-ps filter and use the -DDuplex:true flag
2) Use the LPRng package (lpd replacement) and use -Zduplex flag
( LPRng is available from
http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html )
3) Obtain the hplj4000tn.pcf file from Compaq Services (Unix Kernel team)
4) append HP PCL codes to the beginning of a file
In the end I opted for option 4) and inserted PCL (printer command
language) or PJL (printer job language) header/footer to the printer jobs:
Duplex|duplex:\
:of=/usr/lbin/hpduplex:\
:lf=/usr/adm/duplex:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/usr/spool/duplex:\
:sh:
lp5:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp5err:\
:lp=:\
:rm=spooler.phy.cam.ac.uk:\
:rp=hplj4000:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd5:
Where /usr/lbin/hpduplex contains:
-- cut --
#!/bin/sh -
cat /usr/lbin/hpduplexhead - /usr/lbin/hpduplextail | lpr -Plp5
-- cut --
and /usr/lbin/hpduplexhead is:
-- cut --
^[%-12345X_at_PJL JOB
^[%-12345X_at_PJL SET DUPLEX=ON
-- cut --
and /usr/lbin/hpduplextail is:
-- cut --
^[%-12345X_at_PJL EOJ
^[%-12345
-- cut --
Note: '^[' is the escape char - within vi and insert mode press <ctrl>v
followed by <esc>
Hewlett-Packard has a set of 3 manuals which describes all PCL znd PJL
codes in detail (Part # 5021-0328, 5021-0329, and 5961-0509 cost about
$100) [Thanks Richard Frank]
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Rich
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Received on Tue Mar 30 1999 - 11:21:13 NZST