Hi,

We are facing an issue while setting up printers in solaris 5.10 . We have Oracle EBS installed over it. We have configured the printer and when we try printing a page from EBS it is printing fine. But the problem arises when we print two copies of the page. The first page is printing fine and the next page instead of starting from the next paper, it starts from the left over line of the first paper.

We have the same printing setups as of solaris 5.9 where we do not face any issues.

Printer setup in Solaris 5.9

# lpstat -lp purchasing
printer purchasing is idle. enabled since Mon Oct 16 09:22:32 2006. not available.
        Form mounted:
        Content types: simple, postscript
        Printer types: epson2500
        Description:
        Connection: direct
        Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard
        PPD: none
        On fault: write to root once
        After fault: continue
        Users allowed:
                (none)
        Forms allowed:
                (none)
        Banner page never printed
        Character sets:
                character_set_1
                character_set_2
                usa
                french
                german
                uk
                danish1
                swedish
                italian
                spanish1
                japanese
                norwegian
                danish2
                spanish2
                latin_american
        Default pitch: 10 CPI 6 LPI
        Default page size: 136 wide 66 long
        Default port settings:
        Options: dest=15.1.1.7:9900, protocol=tcp, protocol=tcp

 
Printer setup in Solaris 5.10
# lpstat -lp purchasing
printer purchasing is idle. enabled since Mon Jul 23 14:52:59 2012. available.
        Form mounted:
        Content types: text/plain, application/postscript
        Description:
        Printer types: epson2500
        Connection: direct
        Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard
        On fault: write to root once
        After fault: wait
        Users allowed:
                (all)
        Forms allowed:
                (none)
        Media supported:
                (none)
        Banner page never printed
        Character sets:
                (none)
        Default pitch:
        Default page size:
        Default port setting:
        Options: PageSize=A4, dest=15.1.1.3:9900, protocol=tcp

# lpadmin -p purchasing -v /dev/null
# lpadmin -p purchasing -m netstandard
# lpadmin -p purchasing -o dest=15.1.1.7:9900 -o protocol=tcp
# lpadmin -p purchasing -I simple,postscript -T epson2500
# accept purchasing
Destination "purchasing" now accepting requests
# enable purchasing
printer "purchasing" now enabled
# lpstat -p purchasing
printer purchasing is idle. enabled since Fri Jul 13 16:31:29 2012. available.
#

Hi Srinath,

It sounds like there is a form feed directive missing from the interface files. I have seen this before a long time ago.

I think from memory the files will be in;

/usr/lib/lp/model

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply...

This is the diectory where all the interface files are present. The list is

netstandard                ppd                        
standard_foomatic
tsol_netstandard_foomatic  
tsol_standard_foomatic
netstandard_foomatic       
standard                   
tsol_netstandard           
tsol_standard              
uri

Hi,

Sorry about the delay in responding, if you check in the directory;

/etc/lp/printers/printername

Hi Dave,

No problem. Yes I have the config file in that specified location and it got created by me. I added the printer using the lpadmin command as i said earlier and you can see the output of that from the earlier post.

My doubt is how do I set the default page size and pitch. And is it beacuse of this that I am not able to get the proper page break in reports.

Thanks,
Srinath

Hi,

All your page lenght and pitch commands can be changed when you amend the terminfo file for the printer. If you look at the file below you will see the information is pretty easy to read, although you should be carefull what you change.

su01sa001> cd /usr/share/lib/terminfo
su01sa001> ls
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  A  B  G  H  M  P  S  a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  i  j  k  l  m  n  o  p  q  r  s  t  u  v  w  x  y  z
su01sa001> cd e
su01sa001> ls
emots           ep2500+basic    ep2500+low      ep4080          epson2500-80    ergo4000        ex3000
env230          ep2500+color    ep40            ep48            epson2500-hi    esprit          exidy
envision230     ep2500+high     ep4000          epson2500       epson2500-hi80  ethernet        exidy2500
su01sa001> infocmp ep2500+basic
#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/lib/terminfo/e/ep2500+basic
ep2500+basic,
        cpix,
        cols#136, it#8, lines#66, orc#6, orhi#60, orl#30,
        orvi#180,
        bold=\EG,
        cpi=%?%p1%{10}%=%t^R\EP%e%p1%{12}%=%t^R\EM%e%p1%{20}%=%t^O\EM%e%p1%{17}%=%t^O\EP%;,
        cr=\r,
        csnm=%?%p1%{0}%=%tcharacter_set_1%e%p1%{1}%=%tcharacter_set_2%e%p1%{2}%=%tusa%e%p1%{3}%=%tfrench%e%p1%{4}%=%tgerman%e%p1%{5}%=%tuk%e%p1%{6}%=%tdanish1%e%p1%{7}%=%tswedish%e%p1%{8}%=%titalian%e%p1%{9}%=%tspanish1%e%p1%{10}%=%tjapanese%e%p1%{11}%=%tnorwegian%e%p1%{12}%=%tdanish2%e%p1%{13}%=%tspanish2%e%p1%{14}%=%tlatin_american%;,
        cub1=\b, cud1=\n, cuf1=\s,
        cvr=%?%p1%{0}%>%p1%{256}%<%&%t\E3%p1%c%;, ff=\f,
        ht=\t, is1=^Q^X, is2=\E@\E%0\EO, ritm=\E5, rmso=\EF,
        rmul=\E-0, rshm=\EF, rsubm=\ET, rsupm=\ET, rwidm=\EW0,
        scs=%?%p1%{0}%=%t\E7%e%p1%{1}%=%t\E6%e%p1%{1}%>%p1%{15}%<%&%t\ER%p1%{126}%+%c%;smso=\EE,
        sgr=%?%p1%t\EE%e\EF%;%?%p2%t\E-1%e\E-0%;%?%p6%t\EG%e\EH%;,
        sgr0=\EF\E-0\EH\ET\EW0\E5, sitm=\E4,
        slines=%?%p1%{0}%>%p1%{128}%<%&%t\EC%p1%c%;,
        smglp=%?%p1%{256}%<%t\El%p1%{1}%+%c%;,
        smgrp=%?%p1%{256}%<%t\EQ%p1%{2}%+%c%;, smul=\E-1,
        snlq=\Ex1, snrmq=\Ex0, sshm=\EE, ssubm=\ES1,
        ssupm=\ES0, swidm=\EW1,
        u9=%?%p1%{0}%>%p1%{128}%<%&%t\EC%p1%c%;,
su01sa001>

# infocmp ep2500+basic > new_file.txt
# vi new_file.txt
# tic new_file.txt > ep2500+basic