Printing A3 on HPLJ5100

[Jeroen_D]

Hi,

I am trying to print on A3 on a HP LaserJet 5100 which is connected to a Lexmark MarkNet X2000 box. I guess the Lexmark can be assumed to act as a JetDirect Box ?

I added the printer on my HP-UX 10.20 station using jetadmin. I could ping the IP but JetAdmin couldn't. Nevertheless I continued and aftwards I could print on A4.

In the \etc\lp\interface-dir I notice a jetadmin script and in the \etc\lp\interface\model.orig I have put our general laserjet script which works fine with other A3 laserjet printers.

When I try lp -o a3 or -o A3, it still prints my testfile (/etc/passwd) on A4 paper.
When I try lp -o tray1 still the same.

How can I make the A3 paper selection work ?

Any info is appreciated,
best regards,

Jeroen.

[harry d brown jr]

What you mean is that you want to have your printer (the HP LJ5100) use paper from tray A4, not print on A4, as A4 is just a paper tray.

Have you tried removing the "Lexmark MarkNet X2000" (boy that's a mouth full) from being in front of the printer? Who knows what that thing is doing?

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harry

[Steve Steel]

Hi

jetadmin doesnt work well with lexmark. get lexmarks markvision software


MarkVision Professional
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Or go to
http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/

Make sure that model.orig contains the correct script.

It is one thing to ask 03 but if your script is not giving the correct sequence of commands forget it.

Regards

Steve Steel

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[Jeroen_D]

Hello,

I suppose that Lexmark's MarkVision is something like JetAdmin ? I tried downloading it from the Lexmark-site :
http://drivers.lexmark.com/drivers.nsf/SelectMarkVision?OpenForm&0
but HP-UX 11.X only and I have 10.20 :(
Anyone with a link to an older version ?

I do find the -o a3 option in my model.orig script but it does not seem to work...

The Lexmark is connected to the network and its parallel port to the LJ5100. Altough this customer should have bought a network enabled LJ5100 they chose for the Lexmark solution. I don't like it but hey... let's call this a challenge.

The A4 is the size of the paper and by using -o tray# I tried to use the A3 tray because I want to print on A3 size.

Jeroen.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Here's the problem: The Lexmark adapter is implementing BSD remote printing (aka, RFC 1179) and as such, none of the -o option will ever be seen. BSD printing defines that all print options are processed locally and that a ready-to-print file is shipped to the printer.

SysV printing in HP-UX defines that -o options must be processed at the print server. Since the Lexmark is not a JetAdmin card, the data (and the options) are shipped to the Lexmark and the Lexmark does nothing with the -o options. In order to make this work, you need to create a filter in front of the lp command to preformat the jobs.

JetDirect uses the HP-proprietary port 9100 and performs bidirectional communication as well as looking like a locally attached printer. Thus, the options are run through the model script and hpnpf send the formatted data to port 9100 where it is ready to print.

You'll spend 10-100x the cost of a JetDirect card (in labor) trying to workaround all the limitations of the Lexmark card (or any remote printing solution where HP-UX is not the print server).