Setup of Sharp Network Printer

[wizzer]

Hi - we've recently acquired a Sharp AR-M450 Network Printer/Photocopier and i've been given the task of getting it working on the network.

I'm familiar with HP Jetdirect technologies and we have a couple of these printers in use... i (wrongly) assumed that the Sharp printer would be compatible and work the same way (ie with hpnpcfg). There are instructions for setting up the printer "In a UNIX Envirmonment", however no specific instructions for SCO. The instructions are available for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and BSD - which one of these should be compatible with SCO? If any?

Thanks for any advice...
James R Wilson

 

[jfrantz]

You can print to this printer via LPD. You should be able to look at one of the other Unix install instructions to gleen the specific parameters to use in your /etc/pricap configuration, such as port, spool directory, etc.

-Jeff

 

[jfrantz]

Oops! Typo - should've be /etc/pritcap

Also, I've used the Sharp AR series printers with SCO before and it works well.

-Jeff

 

[wizzer]

Thanks for your response Jeff. I'm not quite sure how the whole lpd thing works.

I've got :
SHARP:\
:lp=:rm=sharp:rp=lp:sd=/usr/spool/lp:

in my /etc/printcap file, but when i do lp -dSHARP file
it says that "UX:lp: ERROR: Destination "SHARP" is unknown to the LP print service"
What else do i need to do?

Thanks
James R Wilson.

 

[jfrantz]

James,

Sorry for the delay in getting back with you. I've been swamped and haven't had a chance to visit this site the past few days.

You can use scoadmin or rlpconf to set up printing.

If you use rlpconf, you'll have to restart lpd and tell the scheduler to accept print jobs by typing 'accept SHARP' without the quotes.

I'm heading out the door or I'd go into greater detail. If this doesn't help, just post and I'll get back with you.

-Jeff

 

[wizzer]

Thanks for the reply!
In the meantime i had found rlpconf and i've now managed to get the printer to accept a print file. But it just sits there in the print queue.

If i do lpstat -t i get
SHARP:
queuing is enabled
printer SHARP waiting for auto-retry. available.
stopped with printer fault

Any idea what i could be doing wrong?
I can ping and telnet into the printer, and i still have the /etc/printcap as i did above.