topic Re: printer setup in Operating System - HP-UX

printer setup

Hoey — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 04:23:11 GMT

Hi all
Our client has a lexmark optra s1250 laser printer. Recently, when it prints from a unix application, it has its left margin cut off. When I looked at the script, it says lp -s -onb -o12 -olandscape -olpi8 -otl66.

Can anybody tell me if the script is ok and also what do those -o (options) means. Is there any documentation that can tell me every option available to the lp command, I tried to look at man lp, doesn't tell me much.

Thanks in advance

Re: printer setup

Ravi_8 — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 04:34:21 GMT

Hi,
you can look into the document "setting up printer on HP-UX" which is supplied by HP.

Re: printer setup

Hoey — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 04:44:02 GMT

Hi ravi
I don't have the manual, do you know if there is some documents on-line?

thanks

Re: printer setup

Rainer von Bongartz — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:06:58 GMT

Try this

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90701/B2355-90701.html

and look at chapter 7
Administering a System:
Managing Printers, Software, and Performance

Re: printer setup

Jordan Bean — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:15:02 GMT

`lp -s -onb -o12 -olandscape -olpi8 -otl66`
can be condensed to
`lp -s -o'nb 12 land lpi8 tl66'`

-s suppresses stdout
-o passes an interface specific option to the interface script in /etc/lp/interface

nb is the no banner option
12 for 12 char per inch
land for landscape
lpi8 for 8 lines per inch
tl66 for 66 lines per page (text length)

Try lp -o'options' to get a list of interface options.

How much of the left margin is dropping off? If just one character, try adding 'lm1 rm175' to the list of options.

Re: printer setup

Hoey — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 01:27:05 GMT

Hi guys, thanks for the help

I used -o14, it should print 14cpi. But it printed 11cpi. Any idea how I can set it to print 14cpi.

Thanks in advace

Re: printer setup

David W Damon — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 22:33:01 GMT

The -o options for the individual printer models are in the interface scripts under /etc/lp/interface/{printername}. If the interface script is a generic remote or local printer interface, then maybe you could find an interface for the printer on the internet. You could use a BSD style interface script with few modifications.

Hope this helps.