Install new printer, update Jetdirect's driver DB....

[OLIVA_1]

Hello,

I would like install a LaserJet 2420N printer on HPUX 11.00 server via Jetdirect and there isn't driver...

How can update drivers DB in Jetdirect ?
or
Where can I find HPUX driver for this printer ?

Thanks...

[Derek Whigham_1]

I quote "Benefits of PDL printing Laserjet 2420N

Host-based printing requires a software print engine in the host operating system, and unlike a PDL (Printer Description Language) printer, cannot accept ASCII text direct from a computer. This means that the Host based printer will only work in the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh environments that are specifically supported with the print engine written for that environment.

Users of unsupported Microsoft Windows and Macintosh environments, as well as users of Linux, Unix, and OS/2 should consider a PDL printer like the HP Color LaserJet 2500, HP Color LaserJet 3000, HP Color LaserJet 3700, HP Color LaserJet 3800, and HP Color LaserJet 4700 series printers.

I fear this will not work on HP-UX

[Steve Post]

I don't know anything about your printer. But, if you can afford to make use less capabilities in the printer, perhaps there is a solution.

Pick a generic printer, or laserjet 5m. In the jetadmin menu. And try to print.

Another option is to setup the printer as a remote printer. Once I had to get use a canon xerox machine as a printer. It wasn't designed to work with unix. But it had an ip address. I set it up as a remote printer.
remote ip:

remote cmd: print

I just guessed at the remote command until I got it to work. Normally the remote command is one of these: print, lp, or lp1.

The manual for the cannon printer only had the word "UNIX" on one page out of 300. That page said the printer would not work with UNIX. But I got it to work anyhow.

But the printing wasn't fancy at all. I could only print ascii text. I also had to put control-m onto the end of every line in the file to make it look right.

[OldSchool]

One other possibility is Remote Print Manager from Brooks Internet Software (www.brooksnet.com. They do, I believe, have trial versions available.

It allows Windows-attached printers to be accessed as a remote printer from the HP-UX side.

It does, however, mean that you would need a windows box to run the printer as well as the software.

[OLIVA_1]

The solution is here :

http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/index2.html

and


#mv net_lj2420.sh.Z /tmp

#cd /tmp

#gunzip net_lj2420.sh.Z

#sh net_lj2420.sh


That's all...