Adding a non-HP Network Printer to HP-UX 11.11

[Tien Tran_1]

How can print to a networked Panasonic DP-3250 Multifunction Device from HP-UX 11.11? I've tried adding it as a remote printer and printed a test page from HP-UX and only the first line printed.

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

Not guaranteed to work but usually does

Add the printer to the system via JetAdmin
For the errors that say "Cannot contact printer" ignore the error and keep going. Should still be able to ping it.

For the driver start with lowest, eg, LJ III
You may want to just goto the 5si driver. If this is a newer printer it should work.

Once printer added to system make sure it is enabled and accepting. Do a test print to the printer
lp -d file

[Tien Tran_1]

I've just tried using both the LjIII and 5si model scripts. During the test prints the SAM console just showed 'busy' without any results. Any other suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
Do you have any documentation for the Panasonic. Maybe you have to send some control characters so it emulates a known (from HPs point of view) printer.

[Tien Tran_1]

This is all I have at the moment but I don't think it's what you're looking for. I'm going to have to cantact my vendor tomorrow to find out more.

[Tien Tran_1]

The issue has been resolved, thanks for all your help. I added the printers as remote printers, used the Windows Server Name for 'Remote System Name' and the printer shared name for 'Remote Printer Name' where as before I would use the printer's IP for the 'Remote System Name'.

[Tien Tran_1]

Thanks again.