I'm trying to set up a printer so that I can use orientation and paper size options. I need to be able to print landscape or portrait and in paper sizes A3 or A4. The printer is on a network and I'm happy to set it up so that the x86 Solaris 10 system talks directly to it, not through a Windows server. The printer is an HP Color Laserjet 8550N and it's set up so that A3 and portrait are the default size and orientation. I can print to it, but everything comes out A3/portrait and I can't figure out how to change that. I don't mind setting up 4 queues to the same printer if that's the way to do it. Tray 1 is a sheet feeder (not to be used), tray 2 contains A4 paper and tray 3 contains A3 paper.
Here's the commands I've used successfully to set up a printer queue. The name of the printer is my_printer in NIS. lpadmin -p my_printer_ps -v /dev/null lpadmin -p my_printer_ps -i /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard lpadmin -p my_printer_ps -o dest=my_printer:9100 -o protocol=tcp -o timeout=5 -o banner=never lpadmin -p my_printer_ps -T PS -I postscript,simple accept my_printer_ps /usr/bin/enable my_printer_ps Then I can print plot.hp2 using the following command: lp -d my_printer_ps -o nobanner plot.hp2 Can anybody help please? Paul This message posted from opensolaris.org
