lpstat help with remote printer

[Ted Flanders]

I am running hpux 10.20 and have several remote printers. They are Okidata 320's and 321's using an oki lan card in them. They are set up as remote printers. When I do an lpstat and all printers are fine, I have no problems. But if one of the Oki's are offline or down for some reason, I do an lpstat and it hangs for about 3 minutes before it moves on. I know that it is searching for the oki printer that is off line. I have been told that there is not a setting to change the wait time on this. I would like it to look, if its not there, just tell me.....dont search for 3 minutes. I would sure think there would be? Can I create a command that wouldnt search for these remote printers but will check the other printers. Then create a command that would search just remote printers? I see there is a switch for the lpstat command (-i) says Inhibit the reporting of remote status. I tried it and it did nothing for me. They are on the network, some are hp jet direct too. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


this is a known problem

see

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x64f46c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

i do not think you can solve it


Steve Steel

[Sajid_1 · Accepted solution]

hello,

There is a patch for this behave - PHCO_25109. Read the patch description here, it clearly says about your same issue - http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=PHCO_25109

[Sajid_1]

Hi again,

Read this document too, it will help you resolving the printer issues - http://support2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000058994427

TKB Doc ID - KBAN00000821

[Yogeeraj_1]

Hi,

I frequently face the same problem.

I prefer to user lpstat -t

or lpstat -p|grep disabled

to check for DISABLED printers

Hope this helps!
Best Regards
Yogeeraj

[Fred Martin_1]

I'm not sure this applies to your situation but I also run OKI 320s and 3410s, with serial cards in them. They are connected to DTCs.

I don't have the problem you describe.

I set up the printers using SAM:

Sam/Printers and Plotters/LP Spooler
/Printers and Plotters/Actions
/Add Local/Add With Nonstandard Device.

Fred

[Fred Martin_1]

I just re-read your message, you are using LAN cards, that's different I would think.