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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8691.0. "system 5 printing to hp4m+" by GIDDAY::SCHWARZ () Tue Feb 04 1997 05:08

    
    G'day all
    
    I have a customer how is trying to set up system 5 printing to a HP4m+
    . His application wants to use lp -o   to set up the page size and
    orientation. From what I have read SVE is not able to use the -o option
    to postscript printers. My question is how can we set up System 5
    printing so that it talks pcl to the printer.
    
    Regards
    
    Kym Schwarz
    Unix support 
    CSC Sydney
    
    cross posted to UNIX_PRINTING.

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	> My question is how can we set up System 5 > printing so that it talks pcl to the printer. I've not worked with PCL printers so can not be sure of this, but here goes. I think the hplaserof print filter is for PCL printers. The laserjet 4M printer is a postscript printer, so there may be a printer setup change required to tell the printer to behave as a PCL printer, this would be printer specific. With the printer properly setup configure SVE printing with lpadmin. For example: lpadmin -Ihplaserof -Thp4M [other options if desired] this tells the SVE print subsystem to use the hplaserof filter, which hopefully talks HP PCL. That should do it, but again I can't be sure how this will behave with the lp -o command since we've never worked with PCL. - Walt

>  My question is how can we set up System 5
>  printing so that it talks pcl to the printer.

I've not worked with PCL printers so can not be sure
of this, but here goes.

I think the hplaserof print filter is for PCL printers.
The laserjet 4M printer is a postscript printer, so
there may be a printer setup change required to tell
the printer to behave as a PCL printer, this would be
printer specific.

With the printer properly setup configure SVE printing with
lpadmin.  For example:

  lpadmin -Ihplaserof -Thp4M [other options if desired]

this tells the SVE print subsystem to use the hplaserof filter, 
which hopefully talks HP PCL.

That should do it, but again I can't be sure how this will
behave with the lp -o command since we've never worked 
with PCL.

- Walt