I'm trying to print multiple copies of a file on sun solaris 8 with
the lp -n command to no avail. No matter what numeric value I supply
-n, I still only get 1 copy
of the file printed.

The command I'm using is 'lp -d SNY_IT5000-2 -n2 file'

The printer is an HP Laserjet 4000 with a Jetdirect card. My
printers.conf
entry is:

SNY_IT5000-2:\
:bsdaddr=10.10.21.17,10.10.21.17:\
:description=SNY_IT5000-2:


Printing in this manner works fine otherwise, it just won't print
multiple copies.

Can you help please?

Thanks in Advance

trevor wrote:
>
> I'm trying to print multiple copies of a file on sun solaris 8 with
> the lp -n command to no avail. No matter what numeric value I supply
> -n, I still only get 1 copy
> of the file printed.
>
> The command I'm using is 'lp -d SNY_IT5000-2 -n2 file'
>
> The printer is an HP Laserjet 4000 with a Jetdirect card. My
> printers.conf
> entry is:
>
> SNY_IT5000-2:\
> :bsdaddr=10.10.21.17,10.10.21.17:\
> :description=SNY_IT5000-2:
>
> Printing in this manner works fine otherwise, it just won't print
> multiple copies.

Some printers' network cards do not support the notion of multiple
copies via the LPR/LPD protocol. It sounds like you have one.

I ran into this same problem with the Tektronix/Xerox Phaser printers.
I sidestepped the problem by replacing LPR/LPD with CUPS .

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trevor_obba@yahoo.co.uk (trevor) writes:
>printers.conf
>entry is:
>
>SNY_IT5000-2:\
>:bsdaddr=10.10.21.17,10.10.21.17:\
>:description=SNY_IT5000-2:
>

This is because Solaris has been configured to think the
device at 10.10.21.17 is the print server for the printer.
The print server is the thing that repeatedly sends the
file to the printer to produce multiple copies.

The problem is, the device at 10.10.21.17 is the LPD emulator
in your printer's Jetdirect card/box. Jetdirect LPD emulators
do not support the protocol's feature for printing multiple copies.

What you need to do instead is configure your Solaris machine to
be its own print server for the printer, so the Solaris interface
script will send the multiple copies to the printer:

lpadmin -x SNY_IT5000-2

lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -v /dev/null -m netstandard
lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -T unknown -I any
lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o protocol=tcp -o dest=10.10.21.17:9100
/usr/bin/enable SNY_IT5000-2
/usr/sbin/accept SNY_IT5000-2

The "-I any" option uses an uppercase i as the option letter, not
a lowercase L. Some newsreaders use fonts that make it hard to
tell the difference.

If you have Solaris 8 or later, with current lp patches, and you
don't want Solaris to print a banner page, type this command
after the others:

lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o banner=never


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gerg@panix.com (Greg Andrews) wrote in message news:<bjo1ck$2u1$1@reader2.panix.com>...
> trevor_obba@yahoo.co.uk (trevor) writes:
> >printers.conf
> >entry is:
> >
> >SNY_IT5000-2:\
> >:bsdaddr=10.10.21.17,10.10.21.17:\
> >:description=SNY_IT5000-2:
> >
>
> This is because Solaris has been configured to think the
> device at 10.10.21.17 is the print server for the printer.
> The print server is the thing that repeatedly sends the
> file to the printer to produce multiple copies.
>
> The problem is, the device at 10.10.21.17 is the LPD emulator
> in your printer's Jetdirect card/box. Jetdirect LPD emulators
> do not support the protocol's feature for printing multiple copies.
>
> What you need to do instead is configure your Solaris machine to
> be its own print server for the printer, so the Solaris interface
> script will send the multiple copies to the printer:
>
> lpadmin -x SNY_IT5000-2
>
> lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -v /dev/null -m netstandard
> lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -T unknown -I any
> lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o protocol=tcp -o dest=10.10.21.17:9100
> /usr/bin/enable SNY_IT5000-2
> /usr/sbin/accept SNY_IT5000-2
>
> The "-I any" option uses an uppercase i as the option letter, not
> a lowercase L. Some newsreaders use fonts that make it hard to
> tell the difference.
>
> If you have Solaris 8 or later, with current lp patches, and you
> don't want Solaris to print a banner page, type this command
> after the others:
>
> lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o banner=never
>
>
> -Greg

Thanks Greg

your suggestions worked, printer now printing multple copies but I can
not print banners, I tried to enable banners by issuing

lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o banner=always

But printer is still not banner page, when the above command was
issued. the /etc/lp/printers/SNY_IT5000-2/configuration file shows
banner is enabled,

Here is my /etc/lp/printers/SNY_IT5000-2/configuration file

Banner: on
Content types: simple
Device: /dev/null
Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard
Printer type: unknown
Modules:
Options: protocol=tcp,dest=206.74.67.42:9100


Banner is enable on the physical printer.
I telnet on printer and make sure banner is enabled but still can't
print banner when jobs are sent to printer, However I could print
banners from other print server printing to the same printer with the
same printer configurations.

I issued the the following command again

lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o protocol=tcp,dest=206.74.67.42 -o banner -v
/dev/null
lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o banner=always

But printer still not printing banner page.

Other print server's print banner pages when print jobs are sent to
the same printer from a similar sun solaris 8 machine with the same LP
patch (patch 109320-06 ) and the same print configuration.

Can you help? please

Thanks again

trevor_obba@yahoo.co.uk (trevor) writes:
>
>your suggestions worked, printer now printing multple copies but I can
>not print banners, I tried to enable banners by issuing
>
>lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o banner=always
>
>But printer is still not banner page, when the above command was
>issued. the /etc/lp/printers/SNY_IT5000-2/configuration file shows
>banner is enabled,
>

The default for the banner is on, so you didn't need to type
any command for it.

Check the /etc/lp/interfaces/SNY_IT5000-2 interface file and
see if there's a line that reads:

nobanner=no
or
nobanner=yes


It should be the former, not the latter. Perhaps in the past
your netstandard interface file was edited to disable banner
pages.


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trevor_obba@yahoo.co.uk (trevor) writes:
>> >
>> >lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -o banner=always
>> >
>
>and users are complaining about banners been printed out in
>small text, is they a way to make print banner print in large
>text. How does sun solaris generate the above banner
>informations.
>
>Basically, how do I make the above banner pages print out in
>large text?
>

They're printing at the printer's default font size for text.
I.e. the size that's configured in the printer's firmware.

Here are a couple of possible remedies, from simplest (yet might
not work) to more complex (yet is known to work):

1) Tell Solaris the printer is a Postscript type:

lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -T PS


2) Tell Solaris the printer is a Postscript type, and should
only receive the print jobs in Postscript format:

lpfilter -f postprint -F /etc/lp/fd/postprint.fd
lpadmin -p SNY_IT5000-2 -T PS -I postscript


3) Install HP's Jetdirect Printer Installer for Solaris software,
and use it to set up the printer queue on the Solaris computer.
It's available if you search www.hp.com's download section for
the words "jetdirect" and "solaris".


Remedies 1 and 2 will work only if the printer supports Postscript.
I don't know if your Laserjet 4000 does. If 1 and 2 only cause the
printer to print pages of junk that looks like software source code
(or just a few lines of source code and the rest blank), then your
printer does not have Postscript support, or it's not enabled.

Some models of HP printers like remedy 1 when you print a Postscript
file, but not when you print text files or PCL encoded files. Remedy
2 can help as long as you're not printing PCL encoded files. Sometimes
even folks who print ordinary text files don't like remedy 2.

Remedy 3 will definitely work, because it replaces the Solaris interface
script (netstandard) with one written by HP specifically for the 4000
series printers. It prints proper banner pages no matter what format
your print files are in, and the banner pages have large letters.

Glad I was able to help so far. Hope this gets the last little bit.

-Greg

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