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Defining an IBM printer on HP-UX

Conal O'Kelly — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:58:15 GMT

Hi
I need to set up an IBM printer on a HP-UX 11.00 system. Jetadmin/Jetdirect won't recognise this printer. Presumably it needs a jet direct card ??
Is there an alternative - can I download the drivers and tell jetadmin to recognise them??
Or is there another way to define the printer. I have tried the "addqueue" command but again I presume this only recognises a jet direct interface.
Thanks for the help.

Cheers Con

Re: Defining an IBM printer on HP-UX

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:59:44 GMT

Hi:

You have a couple of options:

1) XConnect the printer using an external JetDirect. The JetDirect then connects to the printer via the parallel port.

2) Use SAM to set up a 'Remote' printer. The trick here is that you need to know the printer name on the remote host. In this case, the remote host is the hostname of the printer and the printer name mighr be 'TEXT', 'PS', or 'BINARY'. These are only examples. Yoou will need to study your printer documentation.

Regards, Clay

Re: Defining an IBM printer on HP-UX

Steve Steel — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:19:15 GMT

Hi

look at

http://www.lexmark.com/networking/mvp/index.html

MarkVision Professional fully supports all network-capable Lexmark printers and MFP's as well as over 70 printers and MFP's from other manufacturers (including HP, Xerox, Canon, Tektronix, Minolta, IBM, QMS, Ricoh and Kyocera). This feature allows IT administrators to use MarkVision Professional to manage their entire fleet of printers.

You could also consider CUPS the common unix printing system to run your IBM

Steve Steel

Re: Defining an IBM printer on HP-UX

Chuck Zearfoss — Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:27:34 GMT

The ideal solution is to use Lexmark's Enhanced Print Drivers for Unix, which will support IBM's, and especially if they are newer IBM's cuz they are OEMed from Lexmark.

Using JetDirect/HPPI, you can create the queue by putting in the IP of a HP printer that is on the network, then go through the configuration and select the model script you wish, etc. After setup is complete, edit the file to change the IP to that of your Lexmark printer.
One thing to keep in mind - if you are printing large jobs to the Lexmark with JetAdmin, and you run out of paper, get a jam, or a windows user sends a job to it, etc. you may see your JetAdmin job reprint from page 1 in the middle of the job.

It looks like the way to fix this is to change the community name string in the lexmark printer. 2 Ways -
1)Use telnet: Telnet 9000
2)Use Lexmark's MarkVision Professional software
a) under settings-network-tcp/ip, at the bottom
b) create a device policy for a print server (if you want to change alot of printers at one time)

JetAdmin and HPPI does SNMP GETs before the print data, one with community string of internal (which Jetdirect cards will answer, but no other vendor), and one with community string of public, which asks for the private mib location. If a printer responds to this one (as the lexmark does with the OID for it's private mib .641.), then the JetAdmin/HPPI will tend to do "status checks" by requesting SNMP OIDs when it detects a dataflow issue (don't know what kicks that off...). Anyway lexmark responds to the status OID request with "no such name" (cuz the OIDs are in HP's private MIB .11.) and then Jetadmin/HPPI restarts the print job from page one. If the community string name in the lexmark is changed from the default of public, JetAdmin/HPPI still performs the initial SNMP GETs, but gets no response in either case, and thus evidently thinks the printer is "dumb" and never does the status checks in the middle of the job, but instead just keeps sending data...
Hope this helps
Chuck