befudled printers, befudled me

[mightyscotchpine]

I'm really stuck here. Any advice would be a gift from the heavens.
I have a SCO 5.0.6 system. I have two canon laser printers connected to the network by ethernet.
I set both printers up as local spooled printers, by using the HP remote printing services (hpnp). The network device name they print to is in /etc/hosts. Both use HPLaserJet interface in sco. Both were working fine all week. This morning, I changed the interface of them (using scoadmin printer manager) to HPDeskJet500 (the proper interface to handle certain custom forms we print). I sent a job to one of the printers and it appeared that the printer was processing the job, but nothing printed.
I switched the printer model back (once again using scoadmin printer manager) and now nothing will print to either printer. I rebooted with no luck. The print job leaves sco, but I get no reaction at all from the printers.

**Important: in order to get the printers to work originally, I had to move the binary /etc/getone to /etc/getone.org, as SCO advises.

Does anyone have some wisdom on this? Thanks for any help you can give.

Scott

 

[pam196]

From working with Ringdale interfaces and HPNet interfaces, when you switch them on SCO 5.05 it seems to get a bit confused. I seem to recall sorting the problem out by looking at some of the files in the print sub-system. Something like:
/usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces
Will have the names of your printers along with the interface it should be using (within the file). I ended up deleteing these and then setting them up again.
also check your mail - when you send print jobs with interface problems logger picks up on them.

Hope its of some help!

 

[mightyscotchpine]

pam196,

Thanks for the fast input. I deleted and remade the printers with the old model, and they worked fine. Seems kinda silly though.

Scott