HP Business Inkjet 1200 setup on 5.1B

[Radouan Bouzite]

We have a HP Business Inkjet 1200 on our network, and it is setup to print from windows and I want to print also from Unix 5.1B, is there any special entries on the printcap for this printer ?
I have other HP laserJEt Printers setup on unix and works fine .

[Al Licause]

Printing from unix is pretty much a hit or miss situation. The key is in finding a filter that works with most or all types
of printing for that device.

Starting by determining if the printer has a JetDirect card or print server. Try telnet printer_name 9100 and see if it responds.

If it does the you can use telnet printing which will allow you to specify print filters. In telnet printing you designate the printer on the lp line (lp=@printer/port). In this case the port
is specified indirectly through a reference in the /etc/services file.
For remote printing, the printer is specified on the rm line.

Unless you can find a print filter that can be used on unix, you might want to start with one of the existing HP print filters that most closely matches the printer your using.

As a last resort if you cannot find a suitable filter or you cannot get all types of required printing to work, since you have this working from a PC, try spooling through the pc.

To spool to a pc, the pc must have tcp/ip print services installed and running and that printer must be shared. Then on the unix system simply treat the pc as a remote printer (rm=pc_name, rp=pc_print_queue_name).

Good luck.

[Ralf Puchner]

if using lprsetup it should be no problem to configure a lpd or tcp printer (btw. the only supported way except sysman station)

take a look at the supported printer web site to see whether support files can be
downloaded:
http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/printing/printers.html

If not, then try one of the Generic PCF files in /usr/lbin/pcf with the pcfof filter. If you have a PostScript printer and
you have the PPD file for it, try using the ppdof filter, as it will give you the fullest access to the printer's options.

[Radouan Bouzite]

I setup the printer to use telnet printing,
since the HP Inkjet printer is not in supported printer List at :
http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/printing/printers.html
I tried different Generic PCF files, but did not work .

When I tried to setup the printer as remote printer with rm and rp , I have a follwoing message : "waiting for printer to come up" , is that means that the printer does not support LPR or LPD ???

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

what kind of network interface do you use for the inkjet? A print server?
If so, does it support printing to raw ports?
If so, I would suggest trying tcp/ip printing.

greetings,

Michael

[Radouan Bouzite]

The printer has built in netwoek card, and it does not support LPR/LPD so I can not use as remote printer with Unix,
and also I found taht this printer is using PCL3 that is totally different than PCL5


Many thanks to Al, Raplh and Michael