To quickly check if a network-attached printer is reachable (communication can be interrupted because of a lot of things - firewalls blocking the port, misconfigured routing, ....) use the following: the lpd operates on port 515 (see also /etc/services) and the telnet client allows to specify a port:
This will NOT let you establish a connection or print something, but a banner from the printers network interface (usually a JetDirect Card) should greet you. It states the firmware revision, hostname of the printer, etc.. (Sorry, no test hardware to try it, so i have to be a bit vague.) This way you can verify the connection itself is unobstructed.
Another pointer: queues and queue devices are defined in the file /etc/qconfig. This is a clear-text file but it has to be translated into a binary form to be used (/etc/qconfig.bin). /usr/lib/lpd/digest does this, see man qconfig for details.
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)
I have a printer installed over ADSL to a router at a remote location. A Windows printer queue has been setup and working and I can ping the IP address from the Solaris server.
I now want to add a printer queue for this printer under Solaris, but I am unsure how to setup a remote printer queue.... (0 Replies)
Hi,
Has anyone encountered the error below. I have tried to startup the printer but the error keep showing up. Please help. Thanks.
Queue Dev Status Job Files User PP % Blks Cp Rnk
------- ----- --------- --- ------------------ ---------- ---- -- ----- --- ---... (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)
Hi Guys,
I have been trying to resolve a printing problem but nothing works out .
I have an Epson LQ 680 (dot matrix printer) . I need to print a file . The paper length should be 34 .Left margin should be 5. I have tried the following things after researching from the man pages.
pr -t... (24 Replies)
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.
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foomatic-getpjloptions
FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8) System Manager's Manual FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)NAME
foomatic-getpjloptions - <put a short description here>
SYNOPSIS
foomatic-getpjloptions device
foomatic-getpjloptions hostname port
DESCRIPTION
foomatic-getpjloptions Sends a set of PJL commands and reads back the PJL options and status from a printer over a network connection or
device bidirectional interface such as parallel, USB, serial. printers to standard output. The output can be piped into foomatic-addpjlop-
tions to add options to the database.
Options
device The interface to which a local printer is connected, e.g. /dev/lp0, /dev/usb/lp0, /dev/tty00, etc. For a parallel port, you must
have bidirectional support enabled at the BIOS level and the parallel port driver must support the bidirectional mode. Check
your parallel port BIOS settings for EPP/bi-directional mode.
hostname Host name or IP address of a network printer (HP JetDirect, DLINK, etc.).
port Port on which your network printer listens for socket (Appsocket) connections. Most common ports are 9100 (JetDirect), 10000
(DLINK). Usually you can configure the port via a configuration interface.
EXIT STATUS
foomatic-getpjloptions returns ???
AUTHOR
Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary. Modified by Patrick Pow-
ell <papowell at lprng.com> to provide betters support for network printers, error messages, and remove CR and FF from output.
WARNINGS
Uni-directional protocols as remote LPD are not supported as no status is returned. Some network print servers which attach to a printer
parallel port do not support bidirectional mode.
Foomatic Project 2001-05-07 FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)