Printing problem HPUX 10.20

[jim bidebo]

Still having serious printing problems, what i first thought being a problem that occured while printing certain documents, is now a problem that occures in a totaly random basis. the printercue uses the jetdirect protocol to function. and the problem is that while printing postscript documents the printer sometimes seams to print the postscript document as ascii, which results in pretty large piles of paper with cordinates. ive tried more things than ive can remember to salvage this problem, but due to its very random behaviour i havnt been able to find any reason for the problem (kinda fencing in the dark).

Well now i want to try to use this printer as a remote printer, and use the windows NT cue instead of jetdirect directly to the printer. (and i realy hope that the problem will remain... so i can blame the printer =)) but there are some problems with this. i need to define papersource or papersize so i can have a cue that is static linked to A3 (or TRAY2). But i cant seam to find any options like that. Any sugestions?

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

I had success in CAD with -oA3

Regards
Volkmar

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

With the -o option you can add specific option for postscript.

-o A3 -o tray2

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[jim bidebo]

Does'nt seam to work. Observe that im using a remote printer cue in windows NT.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi again,

did you set up the (remote)printer with sam (command line) or jetadmin and what kind of printer is it ?

Robert-Jan.

[jim bidebo]

its configured with sam (add remote printer i think its called)... think ive read all the files associated with this aswell... (aparently missing something thou)..

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Since you are using a REMOTE printer now as opposed to a NETWORK printer, your available printer options are very limited. Do a man rlp, if you don't see the option there, you don't have it.

I suspect that your printer is set to 'AUTO' and that is what is failing. I would leave the printer on the UNIX queue but modify the interface (or create a new queue) that explicitly sends the postscript mode command to the printer before each file is printed.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Jim,

Just a tought. How about using the good old jetadmin for hpux 10.20.

ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com/jetadmin/

Robert-Jan.