Adding a Line printer.

[Raymond Cavanaugh]

I've been trying to work this issue with a new line printer for our HP-UX 10.20 Server, and I can't get the printer to print once I send the print to the Line Printer on the Unix side. But it will print to the printer on the Windows NT side. We have the printer set up as a network printer going throug a Print Server using an Windows NT OS as it's base. The new line Printer is a Talley 6101T with a built in NIC card and thus not needing the use of a JetAdmin direct box. I've checked the HP-UX files such as the /etc/hosts and /etc/services and it all seems to check out to include the new IP address of the printer to the /etc/hosts file. I've added the printer in alright on the Printer and Plotters side of the SAM and ensured the Printer name from the NT side is the same as on the HP-UX side as well. The Pintouts will print a garbled one line of text and then form feed one page up. Then the printer will stop as if it has printed out the text completed.
Is there anyone out there who could possibly help me out on this one?

[Bill Hassell]

JetDirect support includes local processing of special files like ASCII. All other network adapters I've seen implement a form of the remote lp daemon (rlp). HP-UX, like other flavors of Unix, stores ASCII files as strings followed by the LF character and most printers will do exactly as told: text LF text LF...

which on the paper looks like a stairstep effect. This is correct behavior but not desired. With local and JetDirect printers, the printer script handles the conversion by adding CR to every LF, but no such conversion will occur on other systems like Windows or network cards.

Start by adding the printer with SAM as a remote printer, not a network printer. You will need to determine the network card's internal printer name. JetDirect has the two names: text and raw. Adding a remote printer requires the local queue name, the remote computername (or IP address of the network card) and the internal printer name.

Once SAM has added the printer, you can try printing a plain ASCII file with the ux2dos command. It will add the necessary CR to each LF.