HPPI and printer name

[Garyphoenixcontact]

Does anyone know why my HPPI adds and _1 to the end of each printer that I add. After doing so, I need to go back into the configuration and rename the printer to its original name with the _1.

example: mfg_sac_hp4100_l when adding printer

need to go into config(1) and change to mfg_sac_hp4100

Just a bit of a nuisance, but was wondering why this happens.

Thanks!

[A. Clay Stephenson]

It's rather easy to correct in the underlying scripts but the reason is fairly simple. Consider setting up the same physical printer as multiple logical printers with different default settings. Possibly _1 as portait, _2 as landscape, _3 as duplex from tray 3, ... . The automatic appending of the digits avoids queue name collision. It's rather dumb and a smarter play would be to see if the unappended name conflicts before appending. In fact, I remember posting a "fix" for this long ago. In any event, the easy answer is to not use hppi but instead use the addqueue command. Man addqueue for details.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I went back and found my original posting and updated it to JetDirect rather than Jetadmin. If my poor memory serves, this response was my first Bunny on the Forums.

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1) Locate the file /opt/hpnpl/admin/option6hp
and make a backup copy just in case.

2) Edit the file and find the string 'aNAME'.
Locate the line aNAME="`echo $QBASENAME | "$SED" 's/-/_/g'"_"$i".
Precede this line with the following:
aNAME=${QBASENAME}
if [ ${i} -gt 0 ]
then
original line goes here
followed by fi

3) Locate the enclosing while [ 0 ] statement; the line above should be changed from
i=1
to
i=0.

That's it.

The condition prevents a hang in case more than one queue is being assigned to the same IP node. If a duplicate is found then the default behavior kicks in.

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Of course, it's still easier to simply use addqueue but if the interactive add bothers you this the above hack will fix you.

[Garyphoenixcontact]

Mr Stephenson

Thanks for the script change!
It worked like a charm!

Very good info.

[Bill Hassell]

The reason that _1 is added has been criticized for more than a decade. The reason was just a bad choice by a programmer long ago (back when hppi was called jetadmin).

You can avoid all of this junk by simply using the command line (and a it's a lot faster):

addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q mfg_sac_hp4100

wherr -h is the IP address. Note that I prefer using IP addresses for printers because so many DNS admins fail to add printer hostnames in a timely manner.