You should also add an additional escape sequence to return the printer to its power on settings at the end of the job, otherwise, every job will have to set its own page length.
Try setting the printer as a Generic text only printer within XP so that the Windows driver does not add additional escape sequences.
Hello people,
I'm attempting to setup a printer connection to a printer running off the NT printer server, but with little success.
I'm using the admintool, go to ADD printers...where it offers 'local' and 'access to printer'. I have chosen the 'access to printer' option as i'm attempting to... (1 Reply)
Hello.
I am trying to make work HP printer Deskjet 692C. I have
Solaris 9 x86.
I tried to use admintool:
I choosed 'HP-printer' and 'Postscript filter' options.
When I want to print something, instead of the text, the printer prints many pages of some kind of code or whatever...
... (1 Reply)
Hi folks need some help here. We have a RS6000 running AIX. It is almost never used anymore, but we need to print off some data. I have a paralell printer conected to the parrallel port, but have no idea where to go from here. The printer was originall named named LP01. If the users telnetinto the... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
This is katherine and I am kind of new to AIX and has got the following request to set up the printer. Can anybody guide me to fullfill the following request step by step.
The request is as follows:
"We have been asked to set up the following printer in Oracle: UNIX queue
... (1 Reply)
I have Solaris-10 server and want to change default printer setting to Simplex (Instead of duplex, which is set currently). I am not able to see anything in conf file related to this setting.
Please help. (1 Reply)
I have Solaris-10 server and want to change default printer setting to Simplex (Instead of duplex, which is set currently). I am not able to see anything in conf file related to this setting.
Please help (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have Aix 6.1.
Installed the Ricoh Unix print filter, to allow us to print to a Ricoh 5001.
So I send text documents to the printer using the qprt command and set the print job finishing options using the Ricoh commands passed using -o options.
Eg. qprt -Pfin200 -o collate=on -o text... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I need to chack if the printer is out of paper, and send message to operator.
I need to do this from perl script.
The printer have mechanism to check if it have paper. However, the cups does not report "printer out of paper" when I remove the paper, and try to print.
Is there any... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have been trying to configure an HP laserjet printer on an AIX6.1 server through network as well as remote.
This is the first time i am configuring a printer on AIX.
I had been using smitty butwhile configuring, i am getting blank/stuck at "software to support the printer attachment... (10 Replies)
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printers.conf
printers.conf(5) Apple Inc. printers.conf(5)NAME
printers.conf - printer configuration file for cups
DESCRIPTION
The printers.conf file defines the local printers that are available. It is normally located in the /etc/cups directory and is generated
automatically by the cupsd(8) program when printers are added or deleted.
Each line in the file can be a configuration directive, a blank line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.
DIRECTIVES
<Printer name> ... </Printer>
Defines a specific printer.
<DefaultPrinter name> ... </Printer>
Defines a default printer.
Accepting Yes
Accepting No
Specifies whether the printer is accepting new jobs.
AllowUser [ user @group ... ]
Allows specific users and groups to print to the printer.
DenyUser [ user @group ... ]
Prevents specific users and groups from printing to the printer.
DeviceURI uri
Specifies the device URI for a printer.
ErrorPolicy abort-job
ErrorPolicy retry-current-job
ErrorPolicy retry-job
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
Specifies the error policy for the printer.
Info text
Specifies human-readable text describing the printer.
JobSheets banner banner
Specifies the banner pages to use for the printer.
KLimit number
Specifies the job-k-limit value for the printer.
Location text
Specifies human-readable text describing the location of the printer.
OpPolicy name
Specifies the operation policy for the printer.
PageLimit number
Specifies the job-page-limit value for the printer.
PortMonitor monitor
Specifies the port monitor for a printer.
QuotaPeriod seconds
Specifies the job-quota-period value for the printer.
Shared Yes
Shared No
Specifies whether the printer is shared.
State idle
State stopped
Specifies the initial state of the printer (Idle or Stopped)
StateMessage text
Specifies the message associated with the state.
StateTime seconds
Specifies the date/time associated with the state.
SEE ALSO classes.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), mime.convs(5), mime.types(5),
http://localhost:631/help
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29 April 2009 CUPS printers.conf(5)