Printing on a HP c309g-m (Photosmart Premium) from HP-UX

[Peter Jahn]

Is there a chance to print on a HP Photosmart Premium c309g-m from HP UX. The printer is networked with WLAN.
Thanks for any hint.

[Dennis Handly]

The specs say:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01786031&product=3793676
Language PCL3 GUI

Not sure if this is host based.

[Peter Jahn]

Good point. Maybe this could help me:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1284733874706+28353475&threadId=1303784

[Bill Hassell]

As Dennis mentions, this says PCL3 so it might actually work with HP-UX. But your first clue is in the specs: Nothing but Windows as the supported environment. As a note, only classic printers will work on HP-UX. That means they will print plain ASCII characters (PCL1 through PCL4 and early PCL5). The addition of scanning, faxing, etc, plus a low price, makes it very unlikely that it will work.

So you can experiment. Make sure you have hppi installed (hint: ll /usr/hpnpl directory exists). If not, get a copy of hppi for your system from:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=18922&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27349〈=en&cc=us

Then run addqueue to create a printer entry and try printing a simple file:

addqueue -h 1.2.3.4 -q myc309 -r off -b off -t off -i 261

where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the printer. HP-UX has no wireless capability so you'll have to run a cable.

[Peter Jahn]

Thanks Bill and Davis. It's already doing what I want. Even printing photos out from Gimp is working fine. Tip: Scanning also can be done using the browser interface.