printing problem in 9000 E45 server

[Arun Kumar D]

Sir/Mam ,

One T 6306 line printer is attached with the 9000 E45 server . It is giving garbage printing . But the same printer working fine with other PC which is loaded with MS Windows 98 . what could be the reason for this

Regards

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Arun Kumar D
HCL Infosystems Ltd .
Delhi .
India .

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[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Arun.

Your E45 is not a PC. Different than today's servers it has little in common with a PC.

Without a specific driver for HP-UX or a jetdirect card, it won't work directly with that system.

Best bet is a samba/windows/cups compatible print server.

HP-UX/HP-9000 servers work with a much smaller universe of hardware than windows. Which is one of the reasons your system which belongs in a museum still runs today.

SEP

[Bill Hassell]

Since there are many ways to connect the printer (parallel cable, serial cable, remote print server, HP JetDirect LAN adapter, etc), it is very hard to give you any ideas. A Google search shows that this is a Tally T6306 and it supports ASCII characters. So, how did you add the printer? Was it with SAM? If so, did you add it as a serial or parallel printer, or is it on the network? And what version of HP-UX are you running? Also, is the printout all garbage characters, or is the first line OK then the next line shifts over, etc? Are you printing a plain ASCII file such as /etc/profile?