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- Path: sparky!uunet!ddssuprs!tom
- From: tom@dickens.com (Tom Gillman)
- Subject: Re: Hooking HP Laserjet 3D printer to RS6000/560
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.140340.19013@dickens.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:03:40 GMT
- References: <1dsg27INN3vk@mizar.usc.edu>
- Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.
- Keywords: printer duplex aix3.2
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1dsg27INN3vk@mizar.usc.edu> blarson@mizar.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
- >I have an HP Laserjet 3d duplex printer hooked to an IBM RS6000/560
- >running aix 3.2. (No postscript on the printer.) When installing the
- >printer, I told the rs6000 it was a laserjet 3, being the closest
- >printer option in the menu. It works fine with one major exception:
- >every time I try to print duplex (with the -Y2 option to qprt) all I
- >get is an error message on the console or in mail that -Y flag is
- >invalid, and nothing is printed. (See exact error message below.)
- >There doesn't seem to be any option in the printer configuration to
- >specify that the printer is duplex, and the laserjet 3 definition
- >includes the escape sequences needed for selecting duplex operation.
- >IBM sotware tells me to contact the local rep, and he doesn't have a
- >clue about printers. (After I get this one fixed, I assume that I can
- >use the same solution on a laserjet 3si on another rs6000.)
- >Any clues, or is the -Y option documented and doesn't work?
- >
- >the-count% ls -al|qprt -Ppcl -Y2 -
- >Message from blarson on the-count (UNKNOWN) [Wed Nov 11 18:29:27 PST
- >1992] ...
- >Message from queueing system:
- >=====> MESSAGE FROM PRINT JOB 338 (STDIN.14186) <=====
- >0782-006 -Y flag not expected.
- > Check the flags.
- ><EOT>
-
-
- This problem is caused by goofiness in the printer colon file used to create
- the virtual printer. The relevant entries are "ia" and "ic". These are the
- entries that handle passing the flags to "pioformat", which is the program that
- actually preformats the data before it's sent to the printer.
-
-
- :274:ia::%Ide/pioformat -@%Idd/%Imm -!%Idf/piofpcl -l%IwL -w%IwW %f[bgijpstuvxzIJLOQXZ]
- :275:ic::%Ide/pioformat -@%Idd/%Imm -!%Idf/piofpcl -l%IwL -w%IwW -X '' %f[bgijpstuvxzIJLOQXZ]
-
- If you change these two lines where the "%f" is to include a "Y" in the string,
- it should work OK.
-
- BTW, the command to use is "smit chvirprt"
-
-
-
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