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HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:05:46 GMT

Hi all

I want all the output, produced by a HPLJ 9050n, to be rotated 180 degrees. Not upside down, but just a horizontal rotation.
Manually adding the lp option "-orotate" does the trick with plain textfiles, but not with files containing any barcodes.

This printer is configured as a remote printer, with the remote host being its IP Adress. That's probably the reason why I cannot find a modelscript residing in "/etc/lp/interface/model.orig" with my printername.

All printers created as a Network-Based printers connected to HP Jetdirect, have an associated modelscript (model.orig), in which I then could state: rotate="yes".

Yes:-)I first thought this would be the solution and I configured the printer using the JetDirect interface. But with the rotate="yes" option, all output is completely garbled, and instead of 1 page of output it sends out 20 or more empty pages for every spoolrequest.
So this option is not valid/useable.

So being a remote tcp printer, another option would be: adding the printcontrol "&a180P" to any spoolrequest.
But the lp interface for remote spooling in "/etc/lp/interface/" has no valid options for adding "&a180P".

Has anyone experience with adding the rotation-option to the lp interface ecspecially for remote tcp-printers?

I would be very gratefull if someone could help me out and give me a hint.

Waldemar

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Dennis Handly — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:00:18 GMT

Take a look at these threads about printer model scripts:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/using-model-script/m-p/4234554#M329114

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/11i-v1-and-LaserJet-4050/m-p/4761005#M147567

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Regarding-installing-new-network-printer-on-HP-UX/m-p/4280889#M137492

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Remote-Printer-not-printing-in-landscape/m-p/4728701#M147112

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/HP-LAserjet-4250-document-not-printing/m-p/4674300#M382058

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/HP-Jetdirect-510x-driver-for-hp-ux-11i-version/m-p/4466181#M142081

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/HP-UX-LasetJet-printer-need-help/m-p/4406538#M352482

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Remote-printer-to-print-condensed-mode/m-p/4701104#M146720

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/how-to-direct-print-job-to-a-particular-tray-from-Unix-using/m-p/4145845#M133579

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:46:10 GMT

Thanks a lot for pointing out some urls of interest. However, none of them seem to resemble my problem.
Thx anyway.:-)

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Bill Hassell — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:47:45 GMT

> This printer is configured as a remote printer, with the remote host being its IP Adress. That's probably the reason why I cannot find a modelscript residing in "/etc/lp/interface/model.orig" with my printername.

Exactly. When you configure a "remote printer" you lose all of the -o options and there will be no modifications to the print job. A remote printer is assumed to be connected to some PC server. So all you can do is to modify the printjob before it is printer, like this:

cat /etc/rotate.conf /someplace/myprintfile | lp -oremoteprn

Did you download and install the LJ 9050 model script? All the new model scripts are located here:

http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/index2.html

Note also that "&a180P" will not work. This is a PCL escape sequence so the correct string requires the ESCAPE character. When you insert an escape sequence like this, it must not be followed by model script initialization like a printer reset.

> barcodes...

This sounds like you are creating fairly complex PCL documents, and barcodes are special graphics forms that may not survive a &a180P effects. You'll need to consult the PCL manuals for better explanations:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl13210/bpl13210.pdf

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl13211/bpl13211.pdf

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:18:45 GMT

Hello Bill,

>Did you download and install the LJ 9050 model script?

Yes I did download "net_ljM9050MFP" and...

1)Configured the printer correspondingly as a networking-based printer.
- set rotate="yes" fixed value.
- testprints Unix shell were fine

2)Configured the printer, connected to a remote Windows Spool Server. No need to adapt the modelscript. Windows driver has its 180 degrees page-orientation on-board:-(
- testpages Windows were fine too.

>So all you can do is to modify the printjob before it is printer, like this:
>cat /etc/rotate.conf /someplace/myprintfile | lp -oremoteprn

Correct, adding/concatenating the original printfile with the "rotate option" for sure would solve the problem.
However then I should be able to intercept the printfiles before they are sent (from SAP) to the Unix spool, or.... as soon as they're created in "var/spool/lp/requests"?

>"&a180P" will not work
Correct, must be "[&a180P"

I cannot find a way to intercept the spoolfiles, because they're created within a SAP application which I cannot temper with.

Any further ideas how to handle my issue?

Waldemar

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Dennis Handly — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:13:43 GMT

>because they're created within a SAP application which I cannot temper with.

If it uses lp(1) or a model script, you can fiddle with those. The latter was what some of those threads were about.

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:06:58 GMT

Hi Dennis,

Yes SAP uses our lp spooler.
manual action (root):
- disabled printer
- added the escapesequences to the top of the spoolrequest
- enabled printer
- output correct(slightly:-))

Question: How can I "fiddle" with lp and perform above (manual)actions automatedly?

Waldemar

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Dennis Handly — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:01:07 GMT

>How can I "fiddle" with lp and perform above (manual) actions automatically?

By modifying the model script to add that escape sequence. Perhaps this thread may help:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Modification-of-the-Banner-Page-in-HP-UX-11-31/m-p/4750211#M388165

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:02:10 GMT

Dennis, i owe you an apology.

Adapting the modelscript (configured as networkprinter) I tried before I posted this case.

Indeed the last url (your first answer)

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/how-to-direct-print-job-to-a-particular-tray-from-Unix-using/m-p/4145845#M133579

resembles almost 98% my case.
SAP overrides all changes in the modelscript.

so I'm stuck:-(

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Bill Hassell — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:18:39 GMT

The JetDirect model scripts (ie, /opt/hpnpl/sh/net_*) are quite convoluted so finding the right place to insert the code is a challenge. The script will prepend a lot of escape sequences in front of the job so its important to place the echo of the rotate string just before the file is cat'ed.

On the other hand, if SAP embeds ESC-E (reset) into the print job, you are indeed out of luck. You'll have to replace the printer with a model that works OK.

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:31:22 GMT

Bill,

>>if SAP embeds ESC-E (reset) into the print job,

Yes they do, the 1st line of my =

^[E^[(0N^[&l0L^[&l26A^[&l0S^[&l1H^[&l0O^[&l48C^[&l0E^[&l0C^[9^M

Any option I have embedded in the model.orig/ is completely overruled?

>>You'll have to replace the printer with a model that works OK.
Could you please explain?.
With the "overall reset", no printermodel would be workable, or not?

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Dennis Handly — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:58:21 GMT

>Yes they do, the 1st line of my
>^[E^[(0N^[&l0L^[&l26A^[&l0S^[&l1H^[&l0O^[&l48C^[&l0E^[&l0C^[9^M

Then you'll need to use sed(1) or something to edit that line and insert your escape sequence after that Esc E.

>With the "overall reset", no printermodel would be workable, or not?

No, you just have to work harder. :-)

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Bill Hassell — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:53:46 GMT

>> You'll have to replace the printer with a model that works OK.
> Could you please explain?.
> With the "overall reset", no printermodel would be workable, or not?

Correct, no unmodified printer script will work. If I had to pay that kind of money for SAP, I would be complaining bitterly about the hardcoded printer codes. It reminds of early DOS programs that 'supported' specific printers -- but that was 25 years ago. But before I rage on about restricted printer support, I would check with SAP to see if they have customization available. In that case, you get to insert the appropriate codes well into the print job.

Re: HowTo add printcontrol "&a180P" to my spoolrequest?

Muller, W.D. — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:45:22 GMT

Hi Dennis & Bill,

1.Thx for even bothering to reply on this ticket.

2.I'm going to tackle my problem from the other side. Internal SAP customization seems to be the only solution, as the printjob is being generated on a foreign SAP System (A) redirected, with OTF, to SAP System (B).
(the latest info i received through SAP)

thx anyway for helping hand.