Printing unix man pages

[NTC]

Hi all,

can someone help in how can i print unix man pages on a printer.

thanx
sbk

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

One way is:

# man man | col -b | lp -d printername

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Generally it's no more complicated than:

man xxx | lp -dmyprinter

[Torsten.]

or go to

http://docs.hp.com/en/hpuxman_pages.html

[Sung Oh]

You can redirect the man page to a file and modify the man page using text editor and print it.

# man xxx > print_file1
# vi print_file1
# lp print_file1

I hope this helps,

Sung

[NTC]

Thanx guys, i know much of these commands but the pb i have is when i print some pages disappear ( like 1st page print 2nd no , 3rd yes...) may be the printer driver is not good but i am usign the right diriver for LJ5000. any ideas?

Thanx
SBK

[Jean-Marie Wouters]

man xx | lp -dprinter_name -on -o12 -olm10 -otl66

example:
file /usr/local/bin/manpr

#! /usr/bin/sh
case $1 in
-d*) lpdest=$1; shift;;
esac
: ${lpdest:=-dmyprinterbydefaultformanpr}

man $* | lp $lpdest -on -o12 -olm10 -otl66

[RAC_1]

man â somethingâ | col â b | ssp | expand | lp -d"print_queue"

[Tom Henning]

HP-UX does not use printer drivers for printer, just model scripts. So when you added the printer did you use a good model script for this printer? Is it printing everything else correctly?

Does the printer have a duplex unit attached? Sounds like the system is expecting to print duble-sided, since every even page is missing.

You might try adding the printer to the system again, using the dumb model script and see what happens.

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

- download and install the a2ps program
- use man xxx | a2ps -m --center-title="man xxx"

... gives excellent results on postscript printers and under linux.

mfG Peter

[Geoff Wild]

How did you setup the printer?

Does it have a jet direct card?

If so, best way is to use HPPI or from the command line:

addqueue -i 9998 -q QUEUENAME -h printerdns.yourdomain.com

Rgds...Geoff

[NTC]

Hi All,
Thanx for the replies, unfortunalely pb not resolved yet. i am using jetadmin and choe the printer driver lj5000 and the real printer i have is lj5000N. i made the printer conf to use pcl language, im still having some paragraphs disappear when i print. I will have to try the a2ps to see if it works, but i wonder why it is not working with pcl, all the command you gave i tried and sill some lines disappear.

thanx
sbk

[Ganesha Sridhara]

Hello sbk,


If you have installed the apache (bundled with HP-UX) you can see man pages in browser and can be printed:

http://your-macine-name:port/cgi-bin/man2html

example:
http://myserver.mydomain.com:80/cgi-bin/man2html

HTH

Regards
Ganesha Sridhara

[RAC_1]

first try putting it into a file. Check this file and then try to print. Also if you run into same problem try using model script "dumb"

man "something" | col -b |ssp|expand > /tmp/something.txt
Check file. Then print it.

[NTC]

Rac , when i send the man output to a file it is correct no pb with that, i tried the dumb driver and i got some garbige, i may ry one suggestion from our colleague here to install a postscript driver and see if it works.
thanx all
sbk

[Pete Randall]

One more (potential) solution:

man 5 regexp | col -b | expand | lp -d myprinter


Pete

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You mentioned jetadmin...that code has been obsolete for 6 years and is known to have problems with Y2K. And of course, it knows nothing about new printers like the LJ 5000. What version of HP-UX are you running? The replacement code for jetadmin is called HPPI (HP Printer Installer) and can be downloaded from:

10.20
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=18923&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27350〈=en&cc=us

11.xx and higher
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=18922&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=27349〈=en&cc=us

And get the latest printer scripts (not really drivers) from:

http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/index2.html

Note that the dumb model script is not useful with HP printers and using the postscript model script requires that the Postscript module be installed. The printer's selftest will tell you if it is present.

However, the printer scripts do not actually process the print jobs. They prepend and postpend codes to contgrol fonts and spacing for plain ASCII files, but without options, the file is printed as-is. You can bypass the printer script by using hpnpf with the -n option to handle end-of-record processing. The man page will show you the technique.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

man $*|lp -dprinter -on -otl66 -ol70


Always works for me


Steve Steel