PRINTERS issue

[smugindividual]

When i send a file to the printer via lp or glp i'm having to go press a button on the physical printer before a page will come out.

We recently had an integration and these are brand new accounts. I remember dealing with this issue before but cant for the life of me remember what we did. I know for sure its not the printer.

 

[Annihilannic]

Often it's because the default page size is 'Letter' and the printer is loaded with 'A4'. Does the printer not display anything, or does it not have an LCD?

Annihilannic.

 

[smugindividual]

It doesnt have an LCD, just two dummy button. One for canceling a print job and the other is the button i press to print my pages. Am getting the same results with "Letter" and "A4

 

[Annihilannic]

You'd better supply some more detailed information then if you want some help here... exact operating system, printer make and model, how you configured it, etc.

Annihilannic.

 

[mrregan]

The printer is not getting a 'page feed'. If you print a second document, the first will probably eject. You may have an option on your printer setup to add a page feed.

 

[smugindividual]

printer - HP Laser Jet 2200 DN
UNIX - Solaris 8


Documents are queueing up at the printer. If i send 2 documents, i have to press that lousy button twice, but not for every page in a given document, just once per document.

 

[p5wizard]

Look in the printer's manual - there should be an AUTO-FF option to choose somewhere. If not, perhaps your Solaris queueing system can add the FF at every job end if the last char of the job is not already a FF.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Annihilannic]

Not sure it will help, but you could test creating the print queue using this command, which is what has usually worked for HPs for us, although I don't believe we have used that specific model:

[tt]lpadmin -p queuename -o protocol=bsd,dest=hostname -v /dev/null -i /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard[/tt]

Where hostname is the IP address of the printer entered manually in /etc/hosts. I'm presuming this is a network printer of course...

Annihilannic.