RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

Marc Aylesworth Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:38:10 -0800

what Os are you trying to print from? In Linux there is CUPS that will allow you to set up printers to print from your system. In AIX there is SMIT that allows you to setup print queues on the AIX box and send them to a jetdirect connected printer.

Thank you,

Marc Aylesworth

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:19 AM
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Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

Fil,

Thanks for this feedback. I think I can do what you are saying.

Now I have to figure out how to be able to lpr to HPJetDirect print servers..... Gosh, this is begining to be a bit overwhelming. I'm sure I can do it, but after travelling 25 hrs straight yesterday to get back from our vacation, I'm a bit off my stride :-)

Thanks

Kevin

"Beza, Fil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

In the DEVICE File, put the code in PRE OPEN EXECUTE to change the IO variable to the unique name.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beza, Fil
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:22 AM
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Hmmm... we don't have that problem in VMS because each file gets a different version number.

Take a look at %ZISUTL. It has an entry point to generate unique names

UNIQUE(ZISNA) ;Build a unque number to add to a device name
         ;If passed a name put the number before the last dot.
         N %,%1
         S %=$H,%=$H_"-"_$J,%=$$CRC32^XLFCRC(%)
         I '$L($G(ZISNA)) Q %
         S %1=$L(ZISNA,"."),%="_"_%
         S:%1=1 %=ZISNA_% S:%1>1 %=$P(ZISNA,".",1,%1-1)_%_"."_$P(ZISNA,".",%1)
         Q %

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:55 AM
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Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

Thanks for your feedback Fil.

It seems to me that one would need to send the printer file to a file with $J somehow included in it. Otherwise with dozens of users on the system simultaneously, the slave.dat file would be overwritten erroneously.

Thanks

Kevin

"Beza, Fil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

You can create multiple entries in the device file pointing to the same
physical printer. Point each one to a different terminal type where each
terminal type changes pitch etc depending on the PCL code you send to
printer. Each TERMINAL TYPE entry will have a different OPEN EXECUTE.
Take a look at the P-HP... entries in the TERMINAL TYPE File. A bunch
of them are distributed with the FOIA distribution.

Here are three HP OPEN EXECUTES I use

10 PITCH
OPEN EXECUTE: W
$C(27),"E",$C(27),"&l0o0S",$C(27),"&s0C",$C(27),"&k10H",$C(27)
,"&l7.4c2e67F",$C(27),"&a05l95M"

16 PITCH
OPEN EXECUTE: W
$C(27),"E",$C(27),"&l0o0S",$C(27),"&s0C",$C(27),"&k10H",$C(27)
,"&l7.4c2e67F",$C(27),"&a05l132M",$C(27),"(s16h"

DUPLEX (DOUBLE SIDED) PRINT
OPEN EXECUTE: W
$C(27),"E",$C(27),"&l0o1S",$C(27),"&s0C",$C(27),"&k10H",$C(27)
,"&l7.4c2e67F",$C(27),"&a05l95M"

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Fil
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:36 PM
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Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

What Bhaskar said is how we print via TCPIP in Cache/VMS. We actually
send the output to a file thus we treat the Device as a file instead of
a printer. Then using the CLOSE EXECUTE field in the Terminal Type file
we send a command to VMS to send the file to the printer.

Try this - courtesy of Chris Richardson:

DEVICE FILE:

NAME: your device name
ASK DEVICE: NO
ASK PARAMETERS: NO
ASK HOST FILE: NO
SUPPRESS FORM FEED AT CLOSE: YES
TYPE: HOST FILE SERVER
SUBTYPE: P-SLAVE TEXT GTM/LINUX
$I: $HOME/slave.dat
OPEN PARAMETERS: newversion

TERMINAL TYPE FILE:

P-SLAVE HP 80 GTM/LINUX
FORM FEED: #
RIGHT MARGIN: 80
PAGE LENGTH: 60
BACK SPACE: $C(8)
CLOSE EXECUTE: U IO K IO(1,IO) C IO ZSYSTEM "lpr -r "_IO

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Bhaskar
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:24 PM
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Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

The easiest way to print may well be to write the output into a
temporary file and then to run lpr or kprinter on it via ZSYstem to
spool it to the printer.

-- Bhaskar

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:20, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> OK. Everyone's help has been great so far. Now I'm ready for some
> more info.
>
> Let's say I set up a DEVICE calle d OFFICE1_FRONT_LASER, and make it's
> type to be TRM, and it's subtype to be P-HPLASER-P10. I need to tell
> the system the system how to connect to the device. I believe this is

> where $I comes in.
>
> Where can I learn more about how to set up $I? Specifically, I will
> need to connect to HP-JetDirect print servers, which provide their
> services at a TCP/IP address. I don't know the details of which
> ports they use etc, but it is a standard method of connecting printers

> to a network (The printers then connect to these network devices via a

> parallel cable.) I may later also want to connect to printers
> connected to windows boxes. I know I can share these with the simple
> unix LPR protocol. This may simplify connecting to them.
>
> Also, I am trying to discover how to make this process easy for other
> users, to put into my configuration process.
>
> Where do I turn next to learn about this?
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>
> Greg Kreis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Think of the Terminal Type file entry as something similar to
> a 'driver'
> that you load for a device. It does more than that, though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Roy"
> Sent: Fri, November 12, 2004 7:46 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview
> please.
>
> The DEVICE file contains the printers that are used in VistA,
> a field in
> that file name SUBTYPE points to the TERMINAL TYPE file, which
> should
> already be populated with the codes required to talk to an
> array of
> different printers. Printers can be setup to allow for
> different pitches,
> fonts, orientation, etc.
>
>
>
> _____
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Kevin
> Toppenberg
> Sent: Friday, November 12 , 2004 5:55 AM
> To: Hardhats Sourceforge
> Subject: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> Writing here from downtown Rome. Having a great trip.
>
>
>
> Thought Id sneek in a question. Sorry about no apostrophies,
> but this is a
> roman keyboard, and it is DEFINIATELY different from a US one.
> For one
> thing, no one can figure out how to get the AT symbol from the
> keyboard. So
> when I cant find an apostrophy, I think "oh well". ... But I
> digress...
>
>
>
> OK, I am to the point in my installation process where I want
> to walk the
> user through setting up printers. My understanding is that
> printers are set
> up as DEVICES, just the same as any terminal, disk system etc.
> etc. Is this
> true? I there the concept, as in Windows, of printer TYPES and
> printers
> being different? For example, can I have 4 different laser
> printers in the
> front office, all of the same type (i.e. HP laser 4).?
>
>
>
> I kn ow that to set up a printer etc, one must send
> initialization sequences
> etc.
>
>
>
> How does this all work?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
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