Netgear PS110 and Openserver 5.0.5

[zoonkai]

I purchased some Netgear PS110 Printservers. These device have two parallel ports each.

I added the device to the /etc/hosts file on the UNIX server.

I setup the windows configuration utility. Gave the device an IP address, disabled IPX/SPX and NETBEUI, renamed the logical name to ps_zoonkai. Port 1 is by default logically named P1.

I went to the Unix Server. Using Scoadmin>printers>printer manager, I added a remote printer. Selected the printer out of the /etc/hosts file. then typed P1 for the printer name. Everything went well. When I do "lp -dP1 printfile.txt", it begins printing immediately, however, the last page of the print job hangs in the printer untill the "manual feed button" is pressed. The printer is an hplaserjet 1100. If i were to send another print job instead of pushing the button, when the pages is ejected from the printer, the new job has begun at the line following the old print job.

There is an option to send a hexadecimal code to the port after a print job. I can't find out what a form feed code would be.

Netgears Tech support was worthless when I called...kept trying to get me to go to the properties for when the printer used to be hooked up to my local windows machine.

The product supports UNIX...but the tech support dept admitted...they personally knew nothing about UNIX.

Anybody have any Ideas on how to correct this problem.

Thanks

Donald (Zoonkai) Dixon
donnan@don-nan.com

http://www.don-nan.com

 

[pcunix]

Form feed is CTRL-L or decimal 12, octal 014.

Better way to print to these is netcat:

http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#getnetcat

Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[zoonkai]

pcunix

I'm trying to setup an HP1100 up using netcat. This printer works just find using the HPLaserJet interface when I install it on the LPT port.

I downloaded and installed netcat and used the netcat example where you copy the 'network' printer interface and modify 1 line & delete 4 other lines. This communicates just fine & sends output to the printer & causes the printer to eject the page immediately following the print job (this was the problem with using sco's remote printing), the problem is it comes out stairstepped. Is there a way I can use the actual 'HPLaserJet' interface. Have you ever had this problem, or have you ever used the 'HPLaserJet' interface. I tried figuring out what lines in the "HPLaserJet' interface to modify, but I didn't succeed.

Thanks
Donald Donald (Zoonkai) Dixon
donnan@don-nan.com

http://www.don-nan.com

 

[zoonkai]

pcunix

I think I just figured out what to enclose in parentheses and 'PIPE' to netcat. So far it's working like a dream.

Thanks so much!!

Donald Donald (Zoonkai) Dixon
donnan@don-nan.com

http://www.don-nan.com