You are out of luck since the printers are remote, not directly connected using HP JetDirect cards. hppi (the HP Printer Installer) works *only* with printers that have HP JetDirect cards installed. Remote printers (those connected to a server such as Novell) will ignore *all* -o options. This is a feature of SysV remote printing which HP-UX uses. HP-UX can specify -o options for lp but they are passed over to the server for processing. If the server is another HP-UX box, all is well assuming that the remote box's printer script understands the -o options being used.
But if the box is not HP-UX (ie, Windows_something) then the options are silently thrown away. You'll have to include the appropriate codes inside the print job, virtually impossible without support from the Acrobat Reader program. Unlike Windows, HP-UX provides no printer subsystem and associated drivers. In Windows, all print requests use a meta-language that is translated into the appropriate data stream by the driver. In HP-UX (and most other Unices) the spooler simply passes the output to the printer, sometime prepending or postpending control codes. An exception is BSD style printing where there are local formatters thatt can translate jobs before sending them off to be printed.
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
