On 18 Dec 2002, 16:42:04, Martin F Krafft wrote: > We have a duplex-capable HP LJ 5MP/Sx at the lab and instead of > editing the postscript headers for every file I want to print duplex, > it would be much nicer if I could just have an additional entry in > /etc/printcap, so that lprng prints duplex when printing via this new > entry.
I did this years ago . . . please bear with me, my Unix printing was never very good, and this was the highlight of my career in that area . . . /etc/printcap has entries for pre- and post- job streams. I created a text file that sent the HP the PCL command to switch it's default to duplex, and one to switch to default to simplex printing. I then used these to pre- and post- process the jobs on a 2nd queue . . . But I can't for the life of me find the actual jobs . . . . . . I also setup a landscap printing queue, and using an additioinal filtering program (gs I think), I setup 2-up - landscape and 4-up portrait queues as well . . . and a filter that stripped an extraneos Ctrl-D that the Windoze PS print-driver put at the head of files that cause Unix to drop the rest of the PS print-job. You might want to search the Samba or NetAtalk archives for specifics on this. That's what I was working with at the time . . . madmac > --=20 > Martin F. Krafft Artificial Intelligence Laboratory > Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Zurich > Tel: +41.(0)1.63-54323 Winterthurerstrasse 190 > http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~krafft/ CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland > =20 > NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! > Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc > > -- Doug MacFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
