Remote printing using HPUX 11.i

[Dan Maul]

I'm having problems with a Ricoh printer. No matter what's being printed it prints a blank page after every other page.
It's setup as a remote printer using HPUX 11.i and I have attached the script file from /var/spool/lp/interface.
Am I over looking something?
Thanks in advance!!

[David Burgess]

Dan,

Does it matter where you print from? ie if you print from the local server does it work?

Regards,

Dave.

[Geoff Wild]

You say it's a remote printer?

If yes - it should be using the "lp interface for remote spooling" interface script.

Try adding the printer like this:

# lpadmin -v/dev/null -mrmodel -pLOACLQUEUENAME -ormFQDN.of.printer -orpREMOTEQUENAME

Rgds...Geoff

[Dan Maul]

Using the lp command seems to print fine. When printing through PeopleSoft than it becomes a problem.

[Mark Greene_1]

The page size is too big. Either too many lines per inch, or you have either an extra carriage return after the last line, or an extra form feed at the end of the job.

mark

[Bob Fonacier]

Hi Mark,
I'm having the same grief. Everytime we print from Oracle Applications, it prints an extra blank page.

How can we see the extrac characters that forcing the form feed or extra page? What's the name of the hex (?) viewer? where can I download it?

Thanks.
Bob

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Good ole od will display the control characters. Man od for details.

A really nice one is hexedit:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/hexedit-0.9.7/

[Naveej.K.A]

I too agree with Mark Greene, the application might be writing some extra Form Feed after in the end of each print request

With best wishes
Naveej