[SunHELP] setting up printing services

[steve price]

three choices from hp:::

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/hpjetadmin4304_swen.html

http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/get_doc.pl?SNI=hpjetadmin4304&LC=networking&Tfile=bpj02589

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/networking/software/SOLe118.PKG.html

//regards
steve

--- Brian Hechinger <wonko at entropy.tmok.com> wrote:
> > I'm on my first attempt to setup printing services
> on a Solaris 2.7 box.
> > 
> > I've added the printer using admintool.
> > I can print to the printer using lp -D <printer
> name> <filename.txt>
> > The problem is that
> >                      the text
> >                               looks like this.
> > I've got an HP 5 SI
> > 
> > How do I fix this?
> 
> you need a filter that converts line feeds to line
> feeds plus carriage returns.
> basically, you have an "MS-DOS text format" printer.
>  maybe the 5si can be
> told to run in "UNIX mode" i don't know.
> 
> i don't know if there is a simpler way, but i just
> use ghostscript.  i've got
> a bunch of wacky printers that refuse to work with
> anything else, so i really
> don't bother using anything else.
> 
> you may be able to specify a filter name in the
> printer config file and then
> write a small scripts that translates /n to /n/r 
> check man <something printer
> sounding> or wait for someone else to post something
> more useful.  you may
> want to consider ghostscript anyway since it is an
> amazingly flexable tool and
> you can make any printer jump thorugh any number of
> hoops of your design.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -brian
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