topic Re: remote printer problem in Operating System - HP-UX

remote printer problem

Jayasuntar — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:33:15 GMT

Hi all,
I am new to network/remote printers...

I have an Epson EPL-N3000 laser printer which is directly connected to network.I want to print to this printer from a hpux 11i system.

I have configured this printer as remote printer thru SAM.pls find below the settings
Name :Epson1_A4
Type :remote
Enabled to print : yes,idle
Accepting requests : yes
Location :epson1 on 172.28.70.12

The problem I am facing is the printout is not proper.It prints only the first one line of the document.
Will it may a problem with driver or something..?
I have another hp9000 printer already configured with the similar settings and its working fine.
I request the usual help from all..

Jay

Re: remote printer problem

Raj D. — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:42:12 GMT

Hi Jay ,

Its seems problem with the driver and model ,

Try installing the same through JetAdmin, addqueue command. [ offers an alternate method of creating queues for printers connected with HP JetDirect interface cards. ]

the command can be found in
( /opt/hpnpl/bin ),

Cheers ,
Raj.

Re: remote printer problem

RAC_1 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:47:23 GMT

If the printer has been defined as remote printer, there is little you can do about it. Did you properly put the print queue name??
It should be as follows.

lpadmin -pprinter_name -v/dev/null -ob3 -mrmodel -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel -orc -ormremote_host -orpqueue_name

queue_name is remote print queue name.

Also, you may want to define it as network/jetdiret printer.

Re: remote printer problem

Gavin Clarke — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:51:23 GMT

I agree with Raj,

I think the print out is stepping accross the page, which I've seen before a few times.

I believe that there needs to be a carriage return or line feed sent at the end of each line for some printers and not for others.

Instead of setting it up as a remote printer try using SAM to set it up as a network printer, with one of the generic printer models (try the one you think will work best, if it doesn't then modify the queue and try another).

jetadmin which is opened by SAM may object to the network card in that printer, it is still possible to get through those GET and SET messages etc and the printer can still work, despite the initial warnings.

Please let us know how you get on.

Cheers.

Re: remote printer problem

Raj D. — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 05:03:26 GMT

Hi Jay ,

1. You have to add the printer info in /etc/hosts

172.28.70.12 epson1

2.
# lpshut
# i=epsone1
# lpadmin -p$i -v/dev/null -mrmodel -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel -orm$i -orp$i ; echo " Printer $i Created. * * "

# accept $i
# enable $i ; echo "Done",
# lpsched

You can try this, and check.
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3. Else try adding through addqueu , with most matching driver or generic driver.

# /opt/hpnpl/bin/addqueue -l [ will list printers ]
# addqueue -i prt_no -h epson1 -q epson1

# hpnpadmin -s epson1 [ check status ]

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Hope this will help..

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: remote printer problem

Jayasuntar — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:00:33 GMT

Thanks to all