LP command for remote queue printing

[Joe Kanakaraj]

Hi guys,

We have six heavy duty Xerox printers which churn out bills for our Telco. At the moment we print via windows using lpr. We are in the process of migrating the entire application and printing services to HPUX.

The printers as such are Solaris host based. I configured one printer as a remote printer and am able to take prints perfectly. The only hitch is that the remote host has specific queues (about seven of them) which are to be used for specific files.

The existing windows command is like this:

lpr.exe -S -P XBills -d E:\SP\242_XBILLS\exp_2_11120_1_pri.dat_0511R_E_2_X_01.PS

Where the -P is the switch for the queue and XBills is the queue name on the remote printer hosts.

At the moment when I issue this command:-

lp -dprodhlc1 exp_2_11120_1_pri.dat_0511R_E_2_X_01.PS

I get a print, but it prints using the default queue on the host.

My question is what is the command for me to redirect the prints to specific queues at the remote printer host. I have been going through t man page but either I cannot see the switch or am right now too preoccupied.

Help would be appreciated......

Live free & die.

Joe

[RAC_1]

You can do lpmove to move print jobs from one printer to another. Also, you can define a printer class and then direct certain jobs to certain group of printers.

[Joe Kanakaraj]

Correct me if I am wrong but I read that Remote printers cannot be put in a class and also I do not want to move it to another physical printer but to the same printer but a diffent ques so that it prints in a specified way since the queues has certain print parameters difined...

Joe

[RAC_1]

Check this thread. I think you can't do that with remote printer.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1040341