printer drivers for HP Itanium system

[Donald Thaler]

We are in the process of switching over from a pa risc system to an hp rx6600, when some of the print jobs are being cancelled at the printer we noticed that they are starting all over again and the only way to stop them is to delete the que. Are there different printer drivers for the itanium servers and if so where can i go to get them ???

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

There are no drivers for HP-UX -- that is a PC concept. There are just simple scripts. Although there are many ways to conndect a printer (serial, Centronics, remote server, JetDirect), your question sounds like the printer is on the network and you have configured it using hppi (or SAM). HP-UX knows nothing about the new CANCEL button on modern printers. The program which actually talks to the printer is called hpnpf but it has not been updated for a very long time. The best solution is to use the HP-UX cancel command which will terminate the job at the system. I would also disable TRUE-EOJ and JOB-RECOVERY as these features simply do not work very well. To change this option, use the modifyqueue command as in:

modifyqueue -r off -t off -q myprinter

There are updated printer scripts for a few newer models, found at:

http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/index2.html

[skt_skt]

"when some of the print jobs are being cancelled at the printer we noticed that they are starting all over again and the only way to stop them is to delete the que"

How did u cancel?Have u tried cancel or cleaning up files underr /var/spool/request/qname?

whihc make and model the printer is?How it is currently configured?what is the model script used?

[Donald Thaler]

Bill... the modifyqueue -r off -t off -q myprinter command fixed the problem. Is there someway i can update all the printers with this command as opposed to doing one at a time ? I wasn't sure i had assigned points to this, but i don't see the option to add points ?

[Tim Nelson]

ls -1 /etc/lp/interface/|while read printer
do
mycommand $printer
done

[A. Clay Stephenson]

A "man modifyqueue" will show you there is no option to do multiple queues (printers) with one invocation but it would be a rather simple scripting task to filter the output of "lpstat -v" to make sure that no directly attached or Remote printers are passed through and then parse the quename out and feed that to modifyqueue. A little Perl or awk is all it takes.

[Bill Hassell]

As mentioned, there is no global command to change all the printers, primarily because there are so many ways to connect printers. But given an all HP+JetDirect list of printers, you can just do something like this:

for MYPRN in $(lpstat -v|grep /dev/null|cut -f1 -d:|awk '{print $3}')
do
modifyqueue -r off -t off -q $MYPRN
done