AIX PRINTING ON XEROX PRINTERS

[nickbhogal]

I have a problem with printing ASCII text files from AIX.
The files contain both landscape and portrait prints.

A queue has been established using advice from Xerox, which emulates a generic PCL printer. The problem is there does not appear to be any configurable parameters for the number of lines and columns per page. To accommodate both landscape and portrait prints I have set the options as 132 columns per page and zero lines per page. Specifying zero lines per page allows the ASCII text files to dictate the size of the print. This seems to work for all the documents I have to print. I am not that experienced in AIX, and was hoping someone could point me in the direction as to where the config files are located in AIX. I also have an additional problem of when a large file is sent to the Xerox printer ( DCS420 ), the output is directed to a center tray, even if the option on the machine is set to left output.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks

Nick

 

[gymnast]

nick,

try to check printer setting using smit, it'll tell you and show you some default config that you may want to change.

btw, is it a network printer?

 

[nickbhogal]

Yes, sorry I should ahve mentioned it is a network printer and uses the Xerox hardware as a print server.

I have used SMIT to alter the configuration to suit our needs, but the problem of large files being printed to the center, low capacity tray still remains. The Xerox machine has also been set to print to the left as the default tray.

Nick

 

[aixqueen]

One thought. It all depends if you are sending the job with formatting on the
Rs6000 or just sending the stream to the printer as in pass through...
Depending on how it was set up. If you are doing local formatting...
You can pass the tray....if you are doing passthru, then whatever is set on
the printer should work....but remember if not in passthrough, there is a reset
that is sent from the rs6000 after each print job....

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com...mode=9&documents=798138723625152&database=aix

one suggestion that may help?

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com...mode=9&documents=292213886715754&database=aix

AIX 4 instructions

The header page attributes are controlled by the sH attribute, but at AIX 4, the paper tray attribute is selectable
from SMIT as follows:

Setting the Paper Tray for the Main Paper

1.smit chpq

2.Choose PRINT QUEUE name

3.Choose option 2, Default Print Job Attributes, as shown below

Characteristic to Change/Show
Move cursor to desired item and press Enter.
1 Printer Setup
2 Default Print Job Attributes
3 Accounting File
4 Queuing Discipline

4.Scroll down to Paper/Page Options

------------- Paper/Page Options --------------
Page ORIENTATION portrait
Input PAPER SOURCE tray 1 (upper)
PAPER SIZE override for input paper source letter
DUPLEX output simplex

--------- Header/Trailer Page Options ---------
SEPARATOR PAGES none

5.Hit F4 or select from Input PAPER SOURCE and select paper tray for the main job. Options include
(depending on printer type):
manual paper feed
tray 1 (upper)
tray 2 (lower)
envelope feeder
manual envelope feed
100-sheet auxiliary feeder

6.Hit Enter to make the changes

7.Move cursor down to SEPARATOR PAGES and select from:
none
header for job; no trailer
header for job; trailer for job
header for job; trailer for each file
header for each file; no trailer
header for each file; trailer for job
header for each file; trailer for each file
no header; trailer for job
no header; trailer for each file

8.Hit Enter or Do to return to UNIX prompt.

Setting the Paper Tray for Headers

The tray setting for the header paper tray is set by putting a -u flag into the sH attribute for laser printers. This is
done for you through SMIT at AIX 4 as follows:

1.smitty chpq

2.Select Option 1 Printer Setup

3.Move cursor to the line showing
Input PAPER TRAY for header page

4.Hit F4 or select button to choose paper tray

5.Move selection to desired tray and hit Enter or Do

6.Hit Enter again to change the printer settings

 

[nickbhogal]

Wow.

Thanks very much. I will give this a try when I return to work on Monday and let you know how I get one.

Your help very much appreciated.

Nick