Hello all,

I am writing with regards to a Solaris LPR to RHEL5 CUPS migration. Currently I have a team printing with HP Printer Command Codes successfully with the Solaris LPR. With the migration to RHEL5 using CUPS those codes are useless and the desired results are not achieved. Is there specifics I am missing?


Kind Regards,

I'm not certain I understand what you mean by "desired results are not achived". Are you trying the use the HP command codes from Solaris, or are you trying to get printing working using CUPS?

If the latter, as root point a browser at http://localhost:631 to get into CUPS administration. Once there, configure your printer.

Note that you may configure several virtual printers even if there is only one physical printer. Each virtual printer can be configured for a particular print task, such as landscape vs protrait; greyscale vs color; draft vs normal vs photo or letter quality. The advantage is that less time is spent in the printer setup dialogue each time you want to print something. If you do little printing, you don't save much time. If you do a lot of printing, your time saved by not having to configure the print each time you have a job to print adds up.

I should explain this a bit better. The printer is currently configured using the combination of the HP toolset and CUPs. The printer is able to print all documents with the exception where there are ASCII characters which have previously instructed the printer to format the text. If the ASCII text is within the file and printed with CUPs the document is blank. Hope that clears this up.

ASCII characters.. do you mean escape codes ? <esc> E for instance is a reset. if the code is not recognized by the printer it typically just prints an E on the page.

Is that the type of thing you are referring to ?

and if it's an HP Jetdirect network interface. they typically have multiple queues for LPR print jobs.. one queue for RAW printing, and one for ASCII, etc.. which queue did you direct your print jobs to ?

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ectID=bpj02836

Farslayer,

From what I can tell we are using a ASCII print queue in LPR.I believe I am referring to Escape Codes, although in this case they are used to provide certain font types and define page formats. Have you experience any issues migrating from LPR to CUPS?

Regards