printer delay

[michael valentin]

hello. got a new L2000 w/ HP-UX 11.0. Copied the printer queues from old system (hp-ux 10.20). Now some printers are experiencing minutes delay in printing. The print job sits on the queue (lpstat -o) then prints after a while. First i thought maybe it's network but after testing, i don't think it's network at all. Any hints??

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Perchance are you using DNS, and it the delay a reverse-name-lookup delay?

Regards!

...JRF...

[michael valentin]

using DNS but we have IP address on the jetdirects not hostnames.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Michael,

Maybe this doc can help.

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/networking/support_doc/bpj06503.html

Also do a nslookup and see how the printer name and ip are resolved. If required put the printer name and ip in the /etc/hosts file for faster resolution.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Michael,

DNS could be the problem, but i found an old URL on the webv. since you mentioned the old system i would like you to take a look at it.

http://europe-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=ccf938e709cf870b32/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024645462

Good luck.

Gideon