Using CUPS

[Mariani Alberto]

Hi All!

I have a question for all the printers admin guys out there.

We are migrating our db on an old k260 to the new machine (an L2000, hp-ux 11.00), and this of course requires moving the printers as well.
We have 26 printers at the moment, all of them connected to serial ports.
We decided to change this and have looked into making them network printers (got a print server - not from HP, sorry, costs too much - installed jetdirect and used SAM to create the printer).
So far, so good.
The thing we would like to do is using the printers (OKI ML-395) as something a little more sofisticated than "dumb" printers (that's the only option with jetdirect), so i looked around and found this software, cups, that seems very good. I tried it on my linux machines at home (even took my notebook at work and tried it with one of the printers here) and it works like a charm, plus it has the web interface...
Anyway, after i got the printer to produce graphics, i tried to get it working on HP-UX, so i downloaded the source, got gcc-3.2 and tried compiling it.
Aside from the disaster following this approach (gcc doesn't have some flags the ld require to produce the executables, hence the need to get c89 and aC++), i'd like to know if someone else used cups on their HP-UXes starting from the source, what they had to do to replace the standard lpd.

I'd even ask for precompiled packages, but it could be too much for now...


Thank you all for your time.

Best regards,
Alberto Mariani

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

http://www.cups.org./

[Mariani Alberto]

Ravi, the reason i'm asking here is because CUPS home page says nothing about HP-UX (or anything else that is not linux for that matter - and even then...) except that it has been tested on it.

Anyway, thanks for even considering to answer.

Bye,
Alberto

[Steve Steel]

Hi

look at markvision pro from lexmark.

You can download for free

Neat software and supports a mother load of assorted printers.


Steve Steel