HP Printer "drivers" in AIX

AWSmith · 01-21-2014, 12:10 PM

The HP printer drivers in AIX function, but when you get say an HP 400 printer and you want to choose a driver in AIX in smit print, I am limited in choices. I've checked with HP and they only provide HPUX drivers. What if anything do other sysadmins do to deal with this? I just have to try the HP 4000 or 8000 driver and choose the one that works.

wingnut64 · 01-21-2014, 04:16 PM

Not sure about locally attached but over TCP/IP using PCL I've had good luck with just using the 'printers.hpJetDirect.attach' and 'printers.hplj-8100' filesets. I don't believe a lot of print drives get installed by default so you might need to grab them from the install DVD or lpp_source.

AWSmith · 01-22-2014, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by wingnut64

Not sure about locally attached but over TCP/IP using PCL I've had good luck with just using the 'printers.hpJetDirect.attach' and 'printers.hplj-8100' filesets. I don't believe a lot of print drives get installed by default so you might need to grab them from the install DVD or lpp_source.

Yea, that's what I've got. Nothing locally attached, but printers everywhere else. I just wanted to know how everyone else is doing it. I get annoyed when i get a new HP printer and have to fanagle the backend like this. I wish HP and IBM got along better or we bought IBM printers. 8)