Non-HP Printer Installation

[Brad Marks]

I am trying to install a non-HP Laser Printer (a Dell 3100cn) on my HP 9000 (rp5470) under HP-UX 11.i

The HP-UX utility, hppi (H/P Printer Installer), does not recognize the printer when I supply the IP address of it, but I force the program to add the printer to the lp spooler. I have tried using net_ljx000, net_ljcolor, dumbplot_printer, and all of the net_generic* model scripts.

At this point I'm able to do basic printing from the HP9000, but not all PCL commands are being understood by the printer. I'm fairly convinced that this is a printer driver issue, but uncertain wether it is an H/P or Dell issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated (and points assigned!)
Brad

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The problem is that you are trying to set this thing up as a "Network Printer" in HP-UX speak (ie a JetDirect device) when it is not. You need to set it up as a "Remote Printer". UNIX doesn't have "drivers"; print formatting is the sole responsibility of the application. The closest equivalent are the interface files in /var/spool/lp/interface but these for remote printers are very limited.

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Either configure it as a remote printer vi printer IP ,
else configure printer in a windows mcahine (easiness) share it and then configure the shared printer in HPserevr as a remote printer.
regards
SK

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Look at the following

Dell Workgroup Laser Printer M5200n review by PC Magazine
... Dell takes an unusual approach to remote administration. ... Instead, the company points
out that you can use Lexmark's MarkVision or HP's WebJet Admin, both world ...
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1555194,00.asp - 85k - Cached - Similar pages


markvision is good software



for hp addqueue -l

will tell which script fits which pinter


Steve Steel

[Geoff Wild]

You can NOT set up as network printer unless it has an HP Jet Direct card...

If indeed it can use the MarkVision Drivers, you can get them here:

The Lexmark driver package must be installed first.

The file to download from http://drivers.lexmark.com/ is DRIVERS-HPUX1X.PKG.Z

uncompress it then swinstall it.

It will install "Lexmark Enhanced Printer Drivers Package" and "Lexmark Screen Fonts Package". After completion, run: /opt/lexmark/setup.print (use the default of bin for Administrative group, and install fonts as an additional font directory.

Then use lexprt program to add queues.

Rgds...Geoff

[Brad Marks]

I downloaded Lexmark's drivers, but the lexprt program will not recognize the 3100cn as a Lexmark printer.
I contacted Dell who state that they do not support Unix, and would not even tell me what Lexmark printer their 3100cn is.
So I'm forgetting Dell and sticking with H/P.

Thanks for all the help!
Brad