[Xprint] HP PCL Printers.

[Phil Carinhas]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 05:23:48PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Phil Carinhas wrote:
> >  I did the analagous change in my system. 
> >
> >  With Xprint off, i can get Thunderbird to see my named printers as 
> >  in earlier versions of Mozilla. But Firebird insists on seeing an
> >  xprint server. I use LPRng for my print servers.
> > 
> >  All my printers were identified as PS printers in Xprint but just not 
> >  working for me.
> Strange. Where's Roland when we need him:)
> 
> Do you have the xp_ps_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs printer?
> If not turn it on in in the Xprinters file. Then print to that.
 
   Yes I have it, but i don't know what lpd queue it is attached to.
   Here is what xplsprinters shows:

printer: hp@:64
printer: shipping@:64
printer: reception@:64
printer: qms@:64
printer: patty@:64
printer: lj1100@:64
printer: lineprinter@:64
printer: joe@:64
printer: test@:64
printer: document@:64
printer: xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64
printer: xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_Xprintjobs@:64

The one that works fine is qms. the hp and test are LJ3 and LJ4
respectively that dont speak postscript. Does Xprint pass the print job
to the lpd queue?

> See if ghostscript will interpret the file correctly. Try printing it 
> with lpr, and on a native postscript printer if you have access to one.
> If the file won't print attach a copy.

  Thanks Thomas, I set up and tested all the lpd printers with lpr.
All work that way. I'm sure i have some old versions of xprint that I
need to upgrade.

xplsprinters -l -printer hp
printer: hp@:64
        description=PostScript default model
        model-identifier=PSdefault
        default-medium=na-letter
        default-input-tray=
        medium-source-sizes-supported=na-letter false 6.35 209.55 6.35 273.
        medium-source-sizes-supported=na-letter false 6.35 209.55 6.35 273.05
        medium-source-sizes-supported=na-legal false 6.35 209.55 6.35 349.25
        medium-source-sizes-supported=executive false 6.35 177.8 6.35 260.35
        ....etc....
        medium-source-sizes-supported=hp-us-government-legal false 6.35 196.85 6.35 323.85
        medium-source-sizes-supported=hp-us-government-letter false 6.35 196.85 6.35 247.65
        default-printer-resolution=600
        resolution=600
        resolution=360
        resolution=400
        resolution=300
        default_orientation=portrait
        orientation=portrait
        orientation=landscape
        orientation=reverse-portrait
        orientation=reverse-landscape
        default_plex=
        plex=simplex
        plex=duplex
        plex=tumble

-Phil Carinhas
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