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# 1  
Old 10-29-2008
Printer Only Printing First Line
Hi all,
I've got this issue which has me stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Printers which i have added through SAM, as remote printers with their IP address, only print the first line.
Any text file is sent through to the printer only prints the very first line of the file, and the rest is blank.
How do i fix this?
Cheers
# 2  
Old 10-30-2008
Why as remote printers and not network?
Quote:
Remote printers are the worst possible connections you can have.
The lp spooler is based on the SysV standard and relies on some other computer
to properly handle the print request. This means that there can be
compatibility issues, patches on either side, but most important, *NO*
-o options will work for the lp command unless the remote print server
is another HP-UX box.
Bill Hassell dixit...
# 3  
Old 10-30-2008
Hi thanks for your reply.
Adding it as a network printer, using HP Jetdirect (which i'm not familiar with), it cannot piing the printer, using the network name nor the IP address.
Hence i had to use the Remote option as the it can actually ping the printer then.
Thanks.
# 4  
Old 10-31-2008
Start again, remove the printer with sam, use the network printer option which will call jetdirect admin, but is it installed? do you have a /opt/hpnpl directory?

It will not ping the printer if the printer is not known : either it is declared in DNS either you add it in /etc/host
Then test you can ping the name (which can be different of actual... why give to HPUX a name of 16 char if you can renamed it here?...)

You could also configure by giving the IP but in this case you shoud not bypass:
If no reply on ping then check... and in last phase, that is just before validating the config, the name which should be at the time IPsomething can now be modified and given the proper name
# 5  
Old 11-02-2008
Hmm, it's very strange.
I've tried adding the printer again, through sam and /etc/host file but it says it already exists. And i can ping the printer name outside of Sam. But adding the printer through HP Jetdirect (which is installed) it cannot ping the printer nor the IP address.

What should i check? i'm sure i'm missing something.
thanks.
# 6  
Old 11-03-2008
Not on the same network? Are you being filtered?
JetDirect ports:9100, 9101, 9102
# 7  
Old 11-03-2008
Yes, the printer is on a different network.
But how do i check if i'm being filtered or blocked?
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