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Operating Systems HP-UX Setting printer paper length using unix commands Post 302582980 by methyl on Monday 19th of December 2011 08:16:15 AM

12-19-2011

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This seems to be a 10-year-old printer for DOS and early Windows.
Epson LQ-680Pro, Documents & Manuals - Technical Support - Epson America, Inc.

Which HP computer?
Which HP-UX version?
How is this printer physicaly connected to the HP computer?
If it is actually connected to the network, how is this achieved and is there a HP Jet Direct Box?
If it is actually connected to a Windows server, please describe how that is configured and how the HP-UX server sends print.
How was the print queue installed in HP-UX? Was there any special printer driver software for HP-UX from Epson?

Code:

Addendum: That Escape sequence looks familiar (standard Epson one).
 (\x1B\x43\x21)         Is the same as ESC C 33   (set page length to 33 lines.

We have to work in Octal for the Escape Character and the Number in Shell.

If you don't have a special Epson print filter and you wish to send that escape sequence before your printout file called "fileName":

Code:

(
echo "\0033C\0041\c"
cat fileName
) | lp -d printername    ....etc

However of there is some other driver there it will override your settings. Really need to know everything about how this printer is configured. In practice you will probably end up sending a whole list of Escape Sequences to get this right.

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ulpt

ULPT(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   ULPT(4)

NAME

     ulpt -- USB printer support

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device ulpt

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   ulpt_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The ulpt driver provides support for USB printers that follow the printer bi- or uni-directional protocol.  The bits in the minor number
     select various features of the driver.

	   Minor Bit	Function
	   64		Do not initialize (reset) the device on the port.

     Some printers cannot handle the reset on open; in case of problems try the unlpt device.

HARDWARE

     The ulpt driver provides support for USB printers and parallel printer conversion cables, including the following:

     o	 ATen parallel printer adapter
     o	 Belkin F5U002 parallel printer adapter
     o	 Canon BJ F850, S600
     o	 Canon LBP-1310, 350
     o	 Entrega USB-to-parallel printer adapter
     o	 Hewlett-Packard HP Deskjet 3420 (P/N: C8947A #ABJ)
     o	 Oki Data MICROLINE ML660PS
     o	 Seiko Epson PM-900C, 880C, 820C, 730C

FILES

     /dev/ulpt?   device with reset
     /dev/unlpt?  device without reset

SEE ALSO

     lpt(4), usb(4)

HISTORY

     The ulpt driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4.  This manual page was adopted from NetBSD by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> in April 2002.

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