hppi/jet direct printing

[Terry Washington_1]

I just installed hppi on a workstation running HP-UX 11i. I added three print queues using addqueue -h -q . All three of the printers that I added are HP printers with jet-direct cards installed. Lpstat shows the printers enabled and accepting requests. I can ping the IPs of all three printers. I sent a test job to each printer (lp -d ) /etc/hosts. All three print jobs are sitting in the queue but never print. Is there something else that I need to configure to make this work?

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Is the scheduler running? Did you try restarting the lp daemons? Are all the daemons are running? Any error message from log files?

[Bill Douglass]

Check that the printers are enabled:

lpstat -p

If they are accepting but not enabled, jobs will pile up in the queue until the printer is enabled

enable

[Michael Steele_2]

lpshut
cancel -e jobid
lpsched

Each printer must be powered on and have a reachable IP address as addqueue queries each printer as to model to pick the correct printer script.

addqueue -l (* list out responding printers *)

then

addqueue -h -q

[Geoff Wild]

What is the output of:

/opt/hpnpl/bin/hpnpadmin -v

I also attached a little script I wrote called lpst

Rgds...Geoff

[Terry Washington_1]

Thanks for all of the responses. The scheduler was not running. I started it by running lpsched and all the test jobs printed.