Problem installing hp p2014 printer

[Jose luis Martinez Esca]

anybody knows what is the corrext way to install an HP laserjet p2014 printer in HP-UX 11.11?

I installed this printer how remote printer and it works but the problem is when i send a job it spends a lot of time before to be printed another way i tried is showed in this link.

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1210173764149+28353475&threadId=1146280

and supoustly it works but when i send a job, in my lpstat it is sent correctly but that job is not prited.

rewards

[Court Campbell]

Install the jetdirect installer for unix, if you haven't already.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=18922&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=27349〈=en&cc=us

and then install

http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/net_lj2014.sh.Z

You can then use hppi or addqueue to install the printer.

[Jose luis Martinez Esca]

hi Court Campbell

I've already done that, and when i did it my server showed me that the printer was installed correctly but when i send a job, my server marks how this job was printed correctly but the printing never was printed physically. I've read in the printer's worksheet that this printer is not well-suited for HP-UX only for Windows and Mac.

thanks anyway

"CH2"

[Bill Hassell]

> I've read in the printer's worksheet that this printer is not well-suited for HP-UX only for Windows and Mac.

The worksheet is very contradictory. It states: "host-based" and PCL5e which appears to be contradictory. "Host-based" means that there is *NO* possibility that this printer work on any computer except the ones where a special driver is provided. Simply put, host-based means that the conversion from plain text to a fully formed font and then to a raster image must be done in the computer. In other words, the printer cannot print plain ASCII or any other character set. This is *VERY* with cheap printers so beware!

But the P2014 supports PCL5e which means that there is a formatter inside the printer and plain ASCII will print OK. So you hook the printer up to the network and assign the IP address, subnet mask and gateway (per the manual). Then you downlod the P2014 printer script from:

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

and add the printer with the addqueue command:

addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q myprn -b off -r off -t off

DO NOT add the printer as a "remote printer" using SAM or lpadmin. The remote printer protocol is very simplistic and archaic and requires a lot of extra work on the HP-UX side to make iot work correctly. Do *NOT* use a hostname for the printer (use only the IP address) and you should not see the delays you mentioned.

[Jose luis Martinez Esca]

hi Bill Hassell

I've just done you said but it sends me the follow msg

# addqueue -h 10.124.0.68 -q impcostarica -r off -b off -t off -c net_lj2014
Could not contact 10.124.0.68
# ping 10.124.0.68
PING 10.124.0.68: 64 byte packets
64 bytes from 10.124.0.68: icmp_seq=0. time=336. ms
64 bytes from 10.124.0.68: icmp_seq=1. time=380. ms
64 bytes from 10.124.0.68: icmp_seq=2. time=354. ms
64 bytes from 10.124.0.68: icmp_seq=3. time=320. ms

----10.124.0.68 PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 320/348/380

In this moment i'm searching what could be the cause oh this error. If i find something i'll post it here

thanks

[Bill Hassell]

Run this command to see if this is really a printer:

hpnpadmin -v 10.124.0.68

There are several failure possibilities, one of which may be that your network department has blocked port 9100 which is required for HP JetDirect printer cards.