Print to network printer from Solaris 2.5

2007-12-25 11:29:00

It was pointed out that I did not include the word SUMMARY when I posted

my findings.

Apologies.

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Thanks to:

Adrian Cole

Jean-Philippe Leroy

Brian Desmond

Dennis Russell

Michael Wang

Jonathan Sturges

Vahid Moghaddasi

Roger Fujii

and others who asked further questions - whom I have answered

separately.

who, despite the fact that I did not mention that we were trying to

print to HP LaserJet printers, were able to help.

The solution to my original posting (which is attached) was to use HP's

JetAdmin software for Solaris. I downloaded this from www.hp.com , and

all works well!

Some people commented, as did I, that it was a shame that Solaris did

not handle printing better than this!

Thanks for your help

Dennis

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Advice please. I have scanned the archives, but the only answers I found

were related to earlier versions, and some of the solutions do not apply

to me.

We print from Solaris 2.5 (and 2.5.1) through to a SunOS4.1.3 print

server. I am trying to remove the SunOS factor, so I would like to print

directly to the printers, specifying their IP addresses.

I entered a printer in /etc/hosts , and through admintool I created a

printer definition, and I was even able to get something to print!

But...the output was garbled. I assume I need to specify a filter?

Sorry, but I am more used to bsd style printing... could someone please

outline the steps I need to follow?

Thanks, and I will summarise.

Dennis Martens

Unix Administrator

Qld Health, Brisbane, Australia

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