topic Re: Lexmark Printing in Operating System - HP-UX

Lexmark Printing

Nate Arnold — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:08:14 GMT

I am in the process of upgrading my test and production servers from 11.11 to 11.23. I have about 500 Lexmark Printers that I currently print to. I am utilizing Lexmark provided print drivers. Unfortunately it appears that Lexmark does not provide drivers for 11.23. Has anyone else ran into this problem? If so do you have any suggestions on how to handle this?

Thanks

Re: Lexmark Printing

Dennis Handly — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:01:27 GMT

There are no real printer drivers on HP-UX as in windows. Have you tried to use your 11.11 "drivers" on 11.23?

Re: Lexmark Printing

Nate Arnold — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:53:08 GMT

I have installed the 11.11 drivers but get errors when trying to utilize the tools to create a new print device.

Re: Lexmark Printing

Steven Schweda — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:11:30 GMT

> I [...] get errors [...]

This was less informative than it might have
been.

Re: Lexmark Printing

OldSchool — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:08:29 GMT

"I have installed the 11.11 drivers but get errors when trying to utilize the tools to create a new print device"

ok, what "tools" are you using? As noted above, hpux doesn't have "drivers" in the windows sense of the word. There are *usually* just interface scripts that are somewhat model specific.

I've always installed Lexmarks as LaserJet4's using the hppi

Re: Lexmark Printing

Nate Arnold — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:43 GMT

Here is an example of the error that I get.

lanae:/home/narnold/lexmark # /opt/lexmark/unix_prt_drivers/bin/mkdevice -d nateprtq -i 172.29.80.77
/usr/lexprint/bin/.scripts/mkdevice.sh[37]: /usr/spool/lp/lexmark/unix_prt_drivers/vir_devices/nateprtq: Cannot create the specified
file.
Creating virtual device [ nateprtq ] failed!

Re: Lexmark Printing

Dennis Handly — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:19:45 GMT

># /opt/lexmark/unix_prt_drivers/bin/mkdevice -d nateprtq -i 172.29.80.77
/usr/lexprint/bin/.scripts/mkdevice.sh[37]: /usr/spool/lp/lexmark/unix_prt_drivers/vir_devices/nateprtq: Cannot create the specified file.

If you are root, about the only way this will fail if one of the directory paths is a file. Can you do a:
# ll -d /usr/spool/lp /usr/spool/lp/lexmark /usr/spool/lp/lexmark/unix_prt_drivers

The script could also fail if it doesn't do a "mkdir -p" on the directory paths.

So what's in mkdevice.sh around line 30 to 50?

Re: Lexmark Printing

Geoff Wild — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:06:48 GMT

Does /usr/spool/lp/lexmark/unix_prt_drivers/vir_devices exist?

You really should use lexprt program to add queues.

Did you swintall the drivers or just copy them? (should be swinstall).

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Lexmark Printing

Nate Arnold — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:19:38 GMT

The directory path stops at /usr/spool/lp. I did a clean swinstall of the Lexmark tools and have only tried to add a new printer. I have not tried migrating anything yet.

When I try to do a mkdevice for my printer I get an error saying "Invalid Hostname or IP address: nateprt". The mkdevice script call a chkdevice script that checks a number of items like does the queue already exist and if hostname is valid. I can ping nateprt and trying the command with the IP address results with the same error. I am not sure what the problem is at this point.

Re: Lexmark Printing

Nate Arnold — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:23:13 GMT

Also, lexprt doesn't exist on my 11.23 server or on my old 11.11 server. I am assuming that that lexprt is an old method of adding printers.

Re: Lexmark Printing

Geoff Wild — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:14:32 GMT

lexprt comes with the drivers when you swinstall them..

The Lexmark driver package must be installed first.

The file to download from http://drivers.lexmark.com/ is DRIVERS-HPUX1X.PKG.Z

uncompress it then swinstall it.

It will install "Lexmark Enhanced Printer Drivers Package" and "Lexmark Screen Fonts Package". After completion, run: /opt/lexmark/setup.print (use the default of bin for Administrative group, and install fonts as an additional font directory.

Then use lexprt program to add queues.

You can try just mkdir -p the above dir and see if that works...

Is the depot installed?

# swlist |grep -i lex
Lexmark 4.6 Lexmark Software for UNIX(R) Systems
LexmarkDrivers 4.8.2 LEXMARK Software for UNIX(R) Systems

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Lexmark Printing

Nate Arnold — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:15:32 GMT

Many thanks to all who helped with this. Geoff and Dennis provided the most clues which helped me to resolve the problem and to get things working. I have attached a copy of the steps that I took to get Lexmark printers working under the 11.23 operating system but also the steps that I used to migrate all of my print queues from my 11.11 server to my 11.23 machine.