topic Re: printing issue in Operating System - HP-UX

printing issue

George Broadrick — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:10:02 GMT

I am trying to print to a printer that is on a company wide network that consists mainly of windows workstations. I have added two HPUX 11.11 boxes to this network and can ping the IP of the printer, but I do not know how to configure my Unix box to print to it. I do not know the spooler name, if it has one, etc. I added the IP and printer name to my /etc/hosts file, but I'm not sure whatelse I need to do. Any ideas? I need kindergarten type instructions for this since I've never done it..

Thanks!

Re: printing issue

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:19:19 GMT

George,

Please take a look at this old thread, somebody got the same issue that you are having before:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=957541&admit=-682735245+1162300696061+28353475

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: printing issue

George Broadrick — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:05:21 GMT

I used SAM to add the remote printer, gave it the name and IP of our print servers. I still can't print. Any ideas?

Re: printing issue

Paul Sperry — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:34:23 GMT

I'd reconmend downloading and installing JetDirect for install network printers.
It's the ONLY way to go. Download here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=18922&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27349&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=7

Re: printing issue

Sanjay Yugal Kishore Ha — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:50:38 GMT

George,

When you added the printer via SAM, did you 1. specify one of them as a default printer.
2. Chck whether the SCHEDULER state is RUNNING or STOPPED.

You can try executing
/usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -l
If the fisrt line of the o/p is 'STOPPED' then you will need to start the print scheduler with lpsched(1M) or use SAM to start the scheduler.

HTH,
Sanjay

Re: printing issue

Bill Hassell — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:16:09 GMT

Before we give you dire3ctions, it is imperative to know if these printers are connected to the LAN with HP LAN cards or adapters. If not, the printers are known as 'remote' printers and you must know the printer's internal name to add the printer.

If the printers use HP JetDirect LAN cards, then you can add the printer with addqueue. The command is:

addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q myprinter -t off