I hope you will all pardon my ignorance, but I am still unsuccessful
in my tabloid attempts. After re-reading the ifhp HOWTO (thanks
Patrick) I realized that without the lpd_bounce option I wasn't even
filtering through ifhp. My printcap entry looks like:
xerox:
:lpd_bounce
:rp=xjprint
:rm=my.printer.ip.address
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
:ifhp=model=hp4mplus,status@
:filter=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp
I stuck with the default model since this printer is supposed to
understand PJL, PCL and PS. From looking at ifhp.conf, it seems that
the standard options like -Zledger or -Zsource=tray3, etc. should
work (?) Every print attempt prints on letter paper from tray 1. I
have this feeling I'm missing something obvious.
It would of course help if the company wanting to sell us the printer
could even spell 'unix' :)
Thanks again for your help.
Dave
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>>
>> According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> >> From: David Sept <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >>
>> >> We currently have a Xerox DocuColor 4CP to demo and after finally
>> >> determining the print queue name, we are able to do basic postscript
>> >> printing. We are mostly running RedHat 6.2 and I installed LPRng
>> >> 3.6.22 and ifhp-3.3.19 with the hopes of being able to choose letter
>> >> or tabloid/ledger paper size, plus use other features of the printer.
>> >>
>> >> Any suggestions on a printer model that is compatible with the 4CP
>> >> that is already in ifhp.conf? How difficult is it to convert the .PPD
>> >> files into something ifhp can use?
>> >>
>> >Pretty trivial. In fact, I think that there is already support
>> >for most of this in the ifhp.conf file. Do you have a PPD file
>> >for this?
>>
>> I assumed it was easy, but do you have suggestions on which model I
>> should select? Using the default, I tried many different user options
>> thinking it would simply add in the requisite PJL/PCL options, but
>> nothing worked for me. I tried things such as:
>> -Zpaper=tabloid
>> -Ztabloid
>> -Zsource=intray3
>> -Zsource=3
>>
>> and other iterations. I do have the PPD files as part of the driver
>> package from the Xerox website (there are PCL and PS versions I
>> believe).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>
>If you look at the LPRng HOWTO and the IFHP HOWTO there are some
>recommended options and what they should do.
>
>See the ifhp.conf file for the corresponding strings.
>
>Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
>Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
> Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
>LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
>
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University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0365
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http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~dsept/
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