Re: HPUX Printing to Windows Spooler

From: Alan Johnson (adjtech_at_ulster.net)
Date: 07/27/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:54:51 -0400

Elton Seng Yan Thung wrote:

> Dear Expert,
> My company recently purchase ERP system which is running Oracle DB\app
> in some HP UX box. I am responsible to prepare printing devices for the ERP
> report. I setup a windows 2003 Server as spooler, enable Unix printing and
> add all the respective printers to the windows spooler. There are two type
> of printers for the report 1) Laserjet (HP) and 2) dot-matrix (Epson). All
> of the printers are connected to network via HP jet direct. All the UX boxes
> can print to these printers.
> After some report testing, I found that the laserjet printing has no
> problem at all. However the print out from Epson printers do not follow the
> format from the UX. It seems like the windows spooler reject the printing
> control code from the UX and print just text. We have tested with printing
> direct to the HP jetdirect and the result seems fine. Company have decided
> to configure direct printing method for the moment. In spite of, we
> encountered another type of problem with print direct, because without
> spooler the printing tend to be slower, not organize and very hard to
> maintain the print job. For the reason, we are still looking for a way that
> UX can print to the Epson printers that is connected to Windows spooler
> without rejecting or modifying the format of the printout.
> Anyone have the same experience and solution please give me advise.
> thanks
>
>
>
Check what print processor the Epson is using, sounds like the HPUX
might be sending using the wrong language, PCL vs. Postscript, If you
can talk to the Jet card OK, then check the print queue on the Win box
and see if it is using raw data type or a preprocesser. It should be set
for raw.

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