Printer settings

[Ted Flanders_1]

Here is my problem. I am running HPUX 10.20. I have these two printers, a data products and a printronix. On the printronix it ads an extra page inbetween print jobs. On the data products printer it does not ad this extra page. I need to find the settings in unix for these two printers, compare the settings and figure out what is making the extra page print. I dont want this extra page. I know that it is in the unix printer settings because I have compared all of the other settings. I just cant find where they are.............Little help please!

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

The scripts that do the actual printing are in /etc/lp/interface and have the same name as the printer queue.

Regards,

John

[Alex Glennie]

A good place to start maybe : /usr/spool/lp/interface/printer_name, where 'printer_name' is the name of your printer.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
Did you look in the files
/etc/lp/interface/ and
/etc/lp/interface/model.orig/?

Good luck

Victor

[Bill Hassell]

The starting point for printer scripts is the /usr/lib/lp/model directory. For non-HP printers, this is the 'dumb' model script. Printers will often behave differently between manufacturers, so once you have determined that the interface scripts are the same, you may need to determine if the extra page is being produced by the printer connection (ie, serial or parallel).

Note: if these printers are on remote print servers, all bets are off as control is now complicated by the (often poorly documented) behavior of the print server. Are these printers connected directly (ie, serial or parallel), by an HP JetDirect box, or by a non-HP box?

[Jennifer Chiarelli]

As I recall, there is a switch (or a jumper)
on a circuit board in the Printronix that
determines whether or not to do a 'FF' afetr each print job. You didn'y mention the Printronix model. The above was true for the P300 & P600. On the MVP it is in the printer
configuration settings.

Good luck!

[Ted Flanders_1]

I went into the printer interface and did a search on E and on K2G. I then # the lines out at the end of the file containing them. I doesnt print the charectors on the reports any more. It still isnt printing reports correctly though. It wont recognize end of page on some reports, so top of form gets off line fairly often. I am looking for some type of Unix driver for this printer, a Printronix p5215.

[Andrew Maslin]

How are these printers connected to the UNIX machine? Are they remote printers?

As Bill Hassell remarked above, if they are remote printers then things change. We have a similar problem using remote printers at our location with remote printers using LPR/LPD, and in some instances the problem was with the LPD implementation (again as Bill mentioned above). That is another thing you might check.