I am trying to setup a printer and I can not font small enough to print 132 columns on a HP 4050 laser printer.
Here is what I setup in using lpadmin

lpadmin -p np42ne03 -o protocol=bsd,dest=np42ne03,nobanner -v /dev/null –m netstandard -T PS -I any

here is what I setup in the inittab.

p01q:23:respawn:/opt/BrxOPCL/brxtn3287 -h fdt-osa-sy2 -n 5030 -l P01Q -K2 -R600 -s "cat|lp -d np42ne03 -o nobanner"

Thanks in advance

Tony

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We use pcl5lp - which is a free script from HP, you can download it. HP4050's support PCL5.

It uses PCL5 to control the fonts and page orientations rather than spool setup. You may want to consider it. We can print condensed mode 132 chars wide in portrait mode.
We use Courier New.

If nothing else you can read the shell script and see what it is doing.

I can get the data to print from the Main Frame. I just can not get the font to change so I can print 132 characters wide in landscape. The jobs are spooled from the main frame to RMS. I have a print queue built that points to the DNS name of the ethernet interface on the printer. Nothing that I have tried will affect the font size of the output when I print the job.

Thanks again for any help.

Tony