topic Re : drivers needed for Line printer in Operating System - HP-UX

Re : drivers needed for Line printer

Vincent_5 — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:22:32 GMT

Hi Guys,
I have a very old model line printer still in operation and is connected to a jetdirect box, currently I'm trying to configure the rx2620 to print to the printer, but I don't know what kind of drivers to select. The model of the printer is psyp405p HP line printer. Discontinued product. Please advice??

Also, assuming that I have a printing script that I can alight the print out to my requirement, how can I add the script to the driver or queue. At the moment I have copy the script to /var/spool/lp/interface/model.orig/p405fin*

Please advice

Regards
Vincent

Re: Re : drivers needed for Line printer

Mahesh Kumar Malik — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:26:39 GMT

Hi Vincent

Please recheck Product No of line printer to download driver from hp.com site

HP Network printer installer utility (hpni) is required to configure network printer in hp-ux

You may use "dumb" script to add print queue.

Regards
Mahesh

Re: Re : drivers needed for Line printer

Rick Garland — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:28:06 GMT

The 'dump' driver will satisfy most of your line printer issues.

Re: Re : drivers needed for Line printer

Bill Hassell — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:33:23 GMT

I have no clue what a psyp405p printer might be (and neither does HP's website). HP-UX does not have drivers like a PC. The lp subsystem uses a printer script that is tailored to the printer's features. But these scripts are very simple prepend/postpend processors to control basic ASCII printouts and any escape sequences that might control the printer's features, like fonts or oreintation, etc.

The 'dumb" model script found in /usr/lib/lp/model is your starting point. Then, with the technical reference manual for the printer in hand, you add options you'd like to use to this script. You can test this in realtime by copying the script to the model.orig directory and then change the script and test again.

I'm familiar with drum, train, corebar and dot-matrix printers from HP going back to the late 1970's but I don't recognize this model at all. Is it a special OEM printer from another manufacturer?