Installing a postscript printer

[Bruce Baillie]

I have searched for help on this but found none.
I just installed a C3600 in an area where there is no UNIX. The only printer is an old DEC/Apple postscript printer. It has an IP address and is registered on the DNS server. I installed it on the 3600 as a remote printer using the DNS name. When I print from Netscape it looks good. When I "lp" a text file I get a single line that runs off the paper. Any help is appreciated.

[Jordan Bean · Accepted solution]

Hello Bruce,

Assuming the printer is set up as a remote printer, try the attached interface script which will run the file through the postcript filter before handing it to the rlp transport utility.

The postscript filter provides nearly no formatting options. View /usr/lib/lp/model/postscript for more info.

You mentioned that the printer is either DEC or Apple. Could you be more specific? If it's a DEC LPS series and you're running HPUX 11.x, you can still use the unsupported DEC PrintServer software for HPUX 10.20 if /usr/lib/libnck.1 and /usr/lib/libnck.sl are symlink to /usr/lib/libdce.1. This will give you full postscript support.

[Jordan Bean]

Sorry, I forgot to attach the script. Here it is.

[Bruce Baillie]

Jordan,
Thanks for the help.