topic Re: Printer HP2500 in Operating System - HP-UX

Printer HP2500

Frederic Morin — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:04:36 GMT

I have a trouble with Hp DeskJet 2500 and HPUX 11.00

When I make a print request: lp -dXXXX
If I make a lpstat, I see my request,
5 seconds later, lpstat again : no entries

But nothing on the printer???

I have this trouble only whit this kind of printer

Re: Printer HP2500

Rita C Workman — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:24:02 GMT

First - has the IP of the printer been changed?

Have you tried:

Checking to see if the printer is enabled and accepting requests
Sometimes I disable and re-enable a printer
Checking to ensure the schedule is running.
Try stopping and restarting the spooler
Checking that the device is ok.

I also go out to /var/spool/lp/request/ and see if the request is still sitting there?

Just a couple thoughts,

Re: Printer HP2500

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Mon, 23 Oct 2000 06:50:46 GMT

A tipical trick for spool debug is modify the interface file ( /etc/lp/interface/yourprinter) adding two lines:

exec 2>/tmp/yourprinter.debug
set -x

after first line:
#!/bin/sh

If this line is ommited add it too.

do a lp request and then vi debug file

Re: Printer HP2500

Alan Riggs — Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:22:57 GMT

How do you have this printer defined? Is it a networked printer with JetAdmin or a remote printqueue? The behavior of lpstat indicates that the local system is passing the request off to "something".