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- From: k@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Kao)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:59:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY : Filters and remote printers
- Message-ID: <18730020@hprnd.rose.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division
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- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
- References: <jvergeer.59.721902157@stel.csir.co.za>
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-
- Johnny Vergeer:
- > I am having lots of problems getting a TCP/IP connected laser
- > printer to work correctly. The printer seems to concatenate print jobs.
- > The supplier sugested putting some sort of time delay between print jobs.
-
- > I have tried this using an input filter. The following is the entry in my
- > printcap file :
- > ------------
- > newgen|lp:\
- > :if=/usr/local/bin/ng-if:\
- {rest deleted}
-
- > The problem is that the filter (ng-if) never gets executed !
- > Is this because filters are ignored for remote printers ?
-
- The following is from a guide I wrote to help people install the tcp/ip
- card in an HP LaserJet printer on a Sun network. The input filter
- refered to in your remote printcap entry refers to the file on the
- master spooler.
-
-
- o SETTING UP REMOTE SPOOLING
-
- If you wish to do remote spooling, set up the local /etc/printcap file
- to send jobs to the printer/plotter as though the printer/plotter were a
- serial device. The one change is that the "if" and "of" lines from the
- master spooler's /etc/printcap entry must be copied into the local
- system's /etc/printcap entry for the printer plotter. For DesignJet
- plotters and LaserJet II, IID, III, and IIID, the local printcap entry
- will look something like:
-
- <HP-device-name>: lp=:rm=<master-spooler-machine>:rp=<HP-device-name>: \
- if=/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.if.auto:sb:mx#0:
-
- For a LaserJet IIISi, the local printcap entry will look something like:
-
- <ljIIISi-name>: lp=:rm=<master-spooler-machine>:rp=<ljIIISi-name>: \
- of=/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.of.auto:sb: \
- if=/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.if.auto:mx#0:
-
- Test remote spooling by sending a file to the printer/plotter from the
- local system.
-
- - Steve Kao
-