Re: Creating a Solaris 9 Print server with an HP Laserjet

From: Greg Andrews (gerg_at_panix.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 02:44:23 +0000 (UTC)

strube@physik3.gwdg.XPAM.de (Hans Werner Strube) writes:
>Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>> dustin.mccoy@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>I'm new to the whole world of Solaris printing, and I'm having trouble
>>>figuring out how to make a print server out of this new Sun Blade 150.
>>>Can anyone direct me to information on how to do this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> If the printer has a network interface, install the HP Jetdirect
>> software. Documentation is on the CDROM. Once you've installed the
>> software and configured the printer with IP address, netmask, etc, you
>> can use the addqueue command to create print queues.
>>
>> It's generally best to use the vendor's software if the vendor supplies
>> such. If you have to rely on what's supplied with Solaris, you are in a
>> largely undocumented maze! (If there is documentation somewhere you may
>> spend months looking for it!) With Solaris 8 anyway, it's definitely
>> not a Windows style "plug it in and it works" interface!
>
>Jetdirect has always contained a bug with respect to filtering. It installs
>a fast filter which is never called, since the interface script does not
>support fast filters. Fix: in admin/addptrtoq, remove the line
> addfilterdef $SPOOLNAME
>and change
> CANCELOPT=""
>into
> CANCELOPT="-I simple,postscript"

What's far better is:

    CANCELOPT="-I any"

But how does setting CANCELOPT fix the problem of the interface
script not invoking fast filters?

  -Greg 

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