Printer Help needed

[chikn]

We use an accouting package for a remote site called RealWorld. This software prints correctly to anything thats a tty printer connected to a digi. Any jet direct printers it does not. You have to completely ignore anything the software telles you while printing to one. It wont actually print until you say yes to the was the print OK message, also fonts on reports arent correct either and when trying to do a alignment check for checks it advances after the test so it actually throws the alighnment off again.

Is there anyway to fool this program or possibly some lp commands to use?

 

[Gafling]

Chikn, there is quite a bit of difference in printing to a line or dot-matrix printer and printing to a laser printer. While you may already know that, I think the first order of business is to figure out if RealWorld is capable of generating the printer setup character strings needed by the laser. I know that Real World has been around for a long time. You did not mention how old the version you are using was.

There are ways to make it happen if Real World cannot do it directly.

gafling

 

[chikn]

Its till printing to the same line printer as before its just now on a jetdirect and parellel vs the digi serial which is what is causing all my problems. The program just acts completely different when printing to a jetdirect printers than serial printers. Realworld has stopped supporting this software long ago so I would imagine the version is pretty old

 

[PJolliffe]

I used to work for a software house and we had similar problems, you need to look at the interface file that is in /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces/model.orig directory and remove all page formatting commands. The easiest way to do this is to use the "dumb" interface script when you set the printer up and remove all the page throws etc.

The easiest way to test it is to do an &quot;echo Hello | lp -d<printer>&quot;, it should just print the word hello advance to the next line, not page, and stop. If you repeat the above command you should get the following output on the printer:

Hello
Hello
Hello
Hello


Hope this helps

- Paul

 

[chikn]

This is one of the printers thats an IP printer. This one is a netport express (acts the same as a jetdirect when being printed too)

What would need to be removed from it? And thanks for the help.


#!/bin/sh
# System V lp spooler interface file
(
NoOfCopies=$4
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
FileList=&quot;$*&quot;
Count=1
while [ $Count -le $NoOfCopies ]
do
for File in $FileList
do
cat &quot;$File&quot; 2>&1
echo &quot;\014\c&quot;
done
Count=`expr $Count + 1`
done
exit 0
) | /usr/intl/sco/proprint `basename $0` $1 $5
exit $?

 

[PJolliffe]

#!/bin/sh
# System V lp spooler interface file
(
NoOfCopies=$4
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
FileList=&quot;$*&quot;
Count=1
while [ $Count -le $NoOfCopies ]
do
for File in $FileList
do
cat &quot;$File&quot; 2>&1
echo &quot;\014\c&quot; <--- Remove this line
done
Count=`expr $Count + 1`
done
exit 0
) | /usr/intl/sco/proprint `basename $0` $1 $5
exit $?

- Paul