I'm trying to figure out how to get LPRng to filter print jobs and
process and pass options to a Canon iR600 copier/printer.
We have a Solaris-8 print server, all of our Unix boxes forward print
jobs to the server for processing, and PC's print to the print server
via Samba. Most of our printers are HP's with network cards.
The Canon runs its own lpd server, so I can send a print job (eg,
Postscript) directly to the Canon:
lpr -Pprint@canon test.ps
This works, but we'd like to have the print jobs go thru the LPRng
print server, especially for processing of non-PS job files (to get
that automatic a2ps processing, etc.), and to get option selection
processing like duplex, staple, etc. I assume this requires somehow
setting up the printcap and ifhp.conf so that these jobs get forwarded
to the LPRng server, get processed, then get forwarded to the lpd on
the Canon.
Any suggestions how to set this up? Would this process be simplified
if we went thru the overhead of upgrading to the latest LPRng/ifhp
versions? Anyone been thru this?
We're running:
LPRng-3.7.4
ifhp-3.4.4
Solaris-8
Thanks.
Dan
PS: I know that this is probably in the docs. somewhere, but
generally it's taken me a long time to find what I need. Newer
versions of the docs. might be improved, but I'm worried about
backwards compatibility.
PPS: I assume that page counts are out of the question? :-/
--
Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator
Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA
"Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro."
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