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тАО06-28-2000 09:36 AM
тАО06-28-2000 09:36 AM
Lexmark Printers
I have a D-box running 10.20. I would like to connect some Lexmark 4227 printers to the system. I think these are the same as IBM 4227 printers. The printers can do both parallel and serial communications. These printers are located a good distance away, so I cannot use a serial connection. I tried using an external Jetdirect card but the results were not pretty. What other options do I have? Is there a network alternative?
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks
Sanjay.
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тАО06-28-2000 09:47 AM
тАО06-28-2000 09:47 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
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тАО06-28-2000 10:18 AM
тАО06-28-2000 10:18 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
I think it was a driver issue. The system could not ID the printer on the other end. I chose from a list but that list did not have many genric printers listed. I chose "To select dumb plot model script for printer" I was not sure which to use. Any ideas/ suggestions.
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Sanjay.
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тАО06-28-2000 10:35 AM
тАО06-28-2000 10:35 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
Put a driver in, bounce the lpsched, test.
There are two locations in which to find a driver that might help you.
If you have installed the jetadmin software, look in /opt/hpnp/sh
Other location could be /usr/lib/lp/model
I have not worked with this particular printer but others I have worked with typically involves testing the drivers with the printer. Once it is determined which driver to use, note it for future purchases/acquisations.
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тАО06-28-2000 11:25 AM
тАО06-28-2000 11:25 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
Way back when, IBM had a competing printing standard. If I remember correctly it was called PPDS. In any event, most of the older IBM/Lexmark printers default to this standard. Many of these printers also support PCL emulation, but either require you manually change the emulation from the front panel, or shift it into the emulation with an escape sequence sent to the printer as an additional header to the print job. The PPDS standard will allow you to do minimal stuff with one of the generic drivers, but any formatting or font changes you may want to perform will have to be handled with escape sequences added by your application software. My suggestion is that you change the default power up emulation for the printer to PCL from the front panel and then use one of the older LJII or LJIII drivers to print to it.
Lexmark may be a totally separate company these days, but it is clear that their allegiance is still with IBM. You can find all kinds of support for their products for AIX, but you don't find MarkVision (their form of JetAdmin) suppoted on HPUX. This means that if you want complete support for their printers under unix, Big Blue is the only solution that I'm aware of. Looking at AIX is no real help either where their spooler is not implemented with scripts. Maybe MarkVision will come out for Linux allowing combined support there, but for now the only os that seems to be able to act as a complete print server for them both is NT. Not a real robust one either.
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тАО06-28-2000 12:31 PM
тАО06-28-2000 12:31 PM
Re: Lexmark Printers
I tried differnet drivers in Jetadmin and finally found one that prints OK. I can send text files to the printer using lp and the printer works fine. I do not have the functionality to change fonts etc... as mentioned by another user. I might have to just change it at the front panel. I have yet to test a formatted file and so on..
Thanks for all your help
Sanjay
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тАО06-28-2000 12:58 PM
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Re: Lexmark Printers
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тАО08-09-2002 04:34 AM
тАО08-09-2002 04:34 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
Using JetDirect/HPPI, you can create the queue by putting in the IP of a HP printer that is on the network, then go through the configuration and select the model script you wish, etc. After setup is complete, edit the file to change the IP to that of your Lexmark printer.
One thing to keep in mind - if you are printing large jobs to the Lexmark with JetAdmin, and you run out of paper, get a jam, or a windows user sends a job to it, etc. you may see your JetAdmin job reprint from page 1 in the middle of the job.
It looks like the way to fix this is to change the community name string in the lexmark printer. 2 Ways -
1)Use telnet: Telnet
2)Use Lexmark's MarkVision Professional software
a) under settings-network-tcp/ip, at the bottom
b) create a device policy for a print server (if you want to change alot of printers at one time)
JetAdmin and HPPI does SNMP GETs before the print data, one with community string of internal (which Jetdirect cards will answer, but no other vendor), and one with community string of public, which asks for the private mib location. If a printer responds to this one (as the lexmark does with the OID for it's private mib .641.), then the JetAdmin/HPPI will tend to do "status checks" by requesting SNMP OIDs when it detects a dataflow issue (don't know what kicks that off...). Anyway lexmark responds to the status OID request with "no such name" (cuz the OIDs are in HP's private MIB .11.) and then Jetadmin/HPPI restarts the print job from page one. If the community string name in the lexmark is changed from the default of public, JetAdmin/HPPI still performs the initial SNMP GETs, but gets no response in either case, and thus evidently thinks the printer is "dumb" and never does the status checks in the middle of the job, but instead just keeps sending data...
Hope this helps
Chuck
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тАО08-09-2002 05:33 AM
тАО08-09-2002 05:33 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
Lemark has Markvision Pro which works well on UX for lexmark network printers
It is free from the net
Look at that as a solution
Neat program
steve Steel
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тАО08-09-2002 05:38 AM
тАО08-09-2002 05:38 AM
Re: Lexmark Printers
Manoj Srivastava