SUMMARY: Printing on HP8100 from E450 Solaris 8

From: Fletcher, Joe (joe.fletcher@Metapack.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 06:22:49 CDT


Hi,

This is a partial summary insofar as the problem isn't fixed and while some
of the solutions
offered ought to work they don't seem to behave as expected. The bulk of
respondents suggested
downloading the Jetadmin software from HP which I've done though I note it
doesn't list Solaris 8 as a supported option. I've yet to install it since I
think care is required and I want to check the docs very carefully. Another
fix along the lines of

# lpadmin -p printer1 -s printer1!text

had some effect but not the one desired. Now the jobs just vanish into the
ether.
We tried using the postscript filter found in ..../lp/models/hpnpl but that
results in just a banner page. The ps output it generates looks valid so I'm
starting to look harder at the printer itself which also has the curious
feature of doing a reset whenever we try to print anything off SUNsolve
website.

I'll post a second summary when I have a working solution.

Cheers

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Fletcher, Joe [mailto:joe.fletcher@Metapack.com]
Sent: 26 September 2000 17:53
To: 'sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu'
Subject: Printing on HP8100 from E450 Solaris 8

Hi All,

Couldn't find this one in this list's FAQ though I know it's in one
somewhere. Got the above hardware. Need to get rid of the stepping
on text output. Can someone tell me how to configure the standard Solaris
print system to do this please?
My current config file reads as follows:

Banner: optional
Content types: postscript,simple
Device: /dev/null
Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/hpnpl/net_ljx000
Printer type: hplaser
Modules:
Options: protocol=tcp,dest=hp8100:9100

I know the usual fix with BSD printing is to add rp=text:\ to the printcap
file. What am I missing here?

Cheers

Joe

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