Hi Karjala, If you don't wish to use the Solaris printing interface, install LPrng http://www.lprng.org as this is probably closer to what you are familiar with. This is more along the lines of the BSD setup and as such has a /etc/printcap file.
Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 139 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 +61 417 268 665 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karjala Koponen Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2004 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Label printers on AIX and/or Solaris George, And maybe I can get the fellow what wants to get the new printers to do the work! He's our Solaris guy, but I don't think his strength is in printers. I suspect, though, that we'd take more than 15 minutes to figure out what command sequences to send. :) Also, Solaris uses System V printing with printer interface programs that use some other scripting language that, again, I don't know (but maybe ...). A quick look tells me that what you suggest could be done, with another learning curve ... No man pages on our AIX or Solaris systems for printcap. I did call the Datamax tech support, who referred me to Integrated Software Design and Unibar. The Unibar product looks nice but costs $3000 plus. Thanks again, Karjala >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/05/2004 4:07:26 PM >>> We use Datamax labels printers. While I don't send straight ASCII to it, I don't know if it won't accept it. You could try calling their tech support 407-523-5540 and ask them, they have always been very helpful and know their products very well. Can't speak for Zebra, havn't had to use one. George If you just need to send a few characters to allow it to accept text, you could modify your printcap from unix to prepend the characters and add some trailing data to all print jobs that go through it, Shouldn't take too much time (maybe 15 mins) to modify it. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
