HP 8150 LJ

[David Gwin_1]

I have an HP 8150 LJ with an attached 8 bin output box. Using Win2K and the Windows drivers, I can direct a user to a specific output bin and it works great!!! My problem is that 60% of all print jobs are coming from an HPUX 10.20 system. The printer is connected to the unix system w/ JetAdmin. Right now all of the jobs are dumping to the default tray but I'd like to figure out how to designate an output bin baised on the user name (or some other id).

Has anyone done this already??? is it possible to modify the interface script file??? where should i be looking??? what command needs to be sent to tell it which output bin???

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Since you are using JetAdmin (obsolete since 2000 and known to have Y2K errors), you do have the man pages for the JetDirect model scripts and you can also print the 1-page listing of the lp options:

man net_lj8150

(if you do not have this model script, update to HPPI (HP Printer Installer), the replacement for JetAdmin. Then you'll get up to date model scripts)

lp -dmy_printer -ooptions /etc/issue

The option for output tray assignment is bin1, bin2 bin3, etc as in:

lp -omy_printer -obin3 /etc/issue

To customize this, you must edit the active printer script in the /etc/lp/interface/model.orig directory. You will have to compare the userID (variable is $user) then change the default value for $outb to bin1 bin2 bin3 whatever. Here are caveats from the man page:

bin1/topbin, bin2, bin3, ..., bin10

Output pages to specified bin. By default, the bin1 option (face-down) is valid, bin2 is the faceup bin and bin3 through bin10 are optional external output bins.
The bin3 is the face-up bin if bin2 is not available. The options bin9, bin10 are supported by the LaserJet 8150. The bin2 option is valid only when mailbox bin is
attached with printer.