Printing issues from Oracle application running on HP-UX server

[Aji Thomas]

Hello guys,

We are facing an issue of printing and viewing oracle reports with barcode fonts, running on HP-UX OS, but the same report while running from Windows shows the barcode font in the output and we are able to print the barcode font too.
When we raised this issue with Oracle, they adviced us that this issue is because the barcode font CODE39*72*5.77*HR is not recongnized by HP-UX and thus its not showing the barcode report output and not able to print too.
How can i make this work?
Any suggestions and advices,
AJI

[Aji Thomas]

Hi Guys

Any updates

regards
AJi

[Bill Hassell]

This is an Oracle problem to resolve. HP-UX has no printing subsystem like Windows so there are no font selections at all. The specification given by Oracle is only meaningful to the Oracle code. Now there may be some missing instructions on how to locate fonts that will work with a specific printer, how/where to store them and how to configure them appropriately for the Oracle printer programs.

HP-UX, like most flavors of Unix are command-line oriented and printing is limited to simple ASCII text. Applications must have their own code to setup and download the right codes for each model of printer.

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
The print jobs from the Application is usually prepared by Oracle, then handed to the Unix print service.
The setup for the printers has to be done and tested in Oracle. There is a special paragraph in the 'Install' menu.
You may even have to check the ESC sequences.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes