Workcentre 415/PRO 420 Printer

[Wilder Mellotto]

Hi.

I'm having trouble configuring a Xerox Printer Workcentre 415/pro 420.
This printer has a Jetdirect, but it's can not be configured with Hp Jetadmin.

We running HP-UX 11.00 and 10.20. I have problems with both of them.

Please, help me.

[Alzhy]

As far as I know, you can ONLY use JP JetDirect/JetAdmin software on Printers that have HP JetDirect cards. I do not think Xerox printers sport HP JetDirect cards.

You configure non-HP Printers as remote printers -- utilizing their built-in lpd/lpr daemon.

[Wilder Mellotto]

I configured this printer with SAM. The printer is now working, but I still have problem.

This is a content of my file:

test
test
test
test


My printer do this when printing the file:

test
test
test
test

Suggestions?

Thanks.

[DCE]

I just installed a Xerox Workcentre Pro printer, and had to do the following:

Download the appropriate driver from the Xerox web page

Download the unix configuration software from the Xerox web page

Install the driver and configuration software on the server

Run xpadmin to configure the printer

Once you have the printer configured, it apears on the printer list in HPUX

[Wilder Mellotto]

Sorry, my reply was wrong.

The output in my printer have some spaces. Swap the "." with "spaces"

test
.....test
..........test
...............test
....................test

[Alzhy]

You have what is called.. stair-casing effect - this is due to the line terminators of a UNIX print stream. And since you configured your Xerox as a remote printer (in the absence of JetDirect Like software for your printer) -- this is to be expected. You should create a wrapper script for your text prints to add ESC Sequence to disable this behaviour. Or you can do:

cat unixtextfile|ux2dos|lp -dxerosprinter

Your Postscript/PCL formatted print files should print our nicely.

[Lolupee]

The printer does not use JetDirect unless you installed JetDirect yourself.

Please, go to Xerox web site as indicated by DCE and follow the process. There is no other way. It is just like installing a HP printer with jetdirect card without using the jetadmin software, there will always be a itch somewhere.

[Alzhy]

DCE,et al.

The Xerox UNIX bundle.. does it offer the same functionality as JetAdmin/JetDirect fpr UNIX? Meaning - does it create "device" ports so the printer you define is actually considered a "local" printer instead of a remote printer?

DO you have the exact URL for this software? We use theold Tektronix Phaser line and I've been loking for similar software.

Looking also at QMS (now Konik-Minolta) if something JetAdmin/JetDirect like exists.

[Lolupee]

Try this link

http://www.support.xerox.com/go/results.asp?Xlang=en_US&XCntry=USA&prodID=WCP_40C&ripId=&Xtype=download

[Lolupee]

I have just tested and installed and it works fine. The only issue I saw there was the banner, just disable it or reconfigure the banner.

[Alzhy]

Does it work like JetDirect? Meaning - does the software create a device port that you can link to the printer's network card - thereby creating the printer queue as a local one instead of a remote one?

What does your lpstat show?

lpstat yourxeroxprinter

[Lolupee]

the printer works just like the normal network printer. lpstat -a is just like the normal output of jetdirect.

The script xpadmin, calls /opt/Xerox/xxpx/xpadmin binary that creates the driver in the /etc/lp/interface directory and configures it properly.

Please, download and test. However, I did not test on graphics or complex data/worksheets

[DCE]

yes,

the software creates a local printer that uses the local spooler.

SAM shows it as a local printer.


Dave

[Alzhy]

Has anyone tried if it works with non-Xerox printers? Likewise, has nayone tried using Jetadmin software on UNIX to configure non-Jetdirect NIC'd printers?