CDE Print Manager

[Bob Hoyle]

Hi,

I've set up some printers on the system through "sam". I can print using "lp file_name" or "lp -dColor_Laserjet file_name", however, when I try to print through the text editor (dtpad), I get the error,

"An Xprint server for Color_Laserjet could not be found".

If I look at the properties on Color_Laserjet, through CDE, what I see is:

Printer Queue: Color_Laserjet
Status: Up - In Service
Device Name: /dev/null
Status: Up - In Service

My first idea is that a device name of /dev/null is probably not good. However, I've looked every where, I can't see how to change this and I don't even know what I'd change it to.

Any ideas.

-- Bob

[Pete Randall]

Bob,

I suspect you need to configure Technical Print Service (thought I've never had any luck with it - I abandoned dtpad and use vi to edit, lp to print). See Alex Glennie's response in this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xd473972194d6d5118ff40090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1067607578295+28353475


Pete

[Bob Hoyle]

Pete,

Wow! Thanks for the info. What a pain just to get a !#@$#&^ text file to print out! I think I'll just recommend using lp. This was never a problem before with dtpad or vuepad. Is this supposed to be progress?

-- Bob

[Pete Randall]

Bob,

You took the words right out of my mouth. I think that's
exactly what I said a couple of years ago when I was
messing with it.

Good luck.


Pete

[Alex Glennie]

Depending on your patch level wrt CDE or CDE applications you should be able to :

edit /etc/rc.config.d/desktop
add DTPRTSVR=LP
run /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
followed by a dtlogin.rc stop to re-establish old 10.20 functionality where lp not tps was the default.

fyi PHSS_28675 for 11.00
PHSS_28677 for 11.11 are the latest patches thought the functionality was introduced circa PHSS_25***

[Bob Hoyle]

Alex,

Thanks for the info. I am at the customer's site. If I have time today (my last day) I will try this. Otherwise they will have to live with lp, which is acceptable since they will rarely print out text files from dtpad.

-- Bob