Class Printing - Not Working on HP-UX 11i?

[Alzhy]

We've defined a printer class by making existing printers member of that class:

lpadmin -chispeed -plaser1
lpadmin -chispeed -plaser2
lpadmin -chispeed -plaser3

accept hispeed

Then we submit a number of successive jobs to the class via lp -dhispeed . Whenever we submit, the component printers laser1,laser2,laser3 go down.

Any ideas? Anyone doing Class Printing? Class printing is supposed to balance printjobs among member printers so printjob1 goes to peinter1, while printer1 is busy, print job 2 goes to printer2 ... and so on.

[RAC_1]

What does the log file say??

I think you need enable hispeed after accept command

Anil

[Alzhy]

Never mind.

Reading lpadmin man page closely, the warning notes clearly mentions Class Printing is not supported for remote printers. The printers we have are QMS printers for which no JetDirect type of software exists (or is there?) that will make it possible to configure it as a local printer.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Class printing normally works flawlessly. I assume that at least one of the class members is enabled. Look at /var/spool/lp/log; you should see whatever is causing your problem.

Can you print to the printer itself w/o printers; ie does "lp -plaser1 myfile" work?

[Alzhy]

Anyone knows if there is a JetDirect type software for QMS printers that will allow them to be configured as local printers?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

What you should be able to do is connect your QMS printers via an external JetDirect to transform them from Remote printers to Network printers.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

I've used the process listed here to configure a multifunction (non-hp) printer under hp-ux. You can give it a try,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000075952066

The itrc doc id is bpj02836.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Alzhy]

Brilliant idea A. Clay... I suppose the QMS printers support parallel port operation to hook up to a JetDirect EX multi-port?

Sanjay, the documenet does not mention creating a "port" on HP-UX so the pinter is treted as a "local printer"

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Yes the QMS printers we have come equipped with their own network interface (using the QMSoft software) and a parallel port which can be connected to an external Jetdirect. You will have to create your own interface file but using the interface files suppiled with QMSoft as a model, changing them to use hpnpf (the JetDirect communication filter) is easy.