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| DATE | Feb 25, 2008 |
| TICKET | #336345 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | How View a Printer's Definition |
| CAT | Computers, Operating Systems, Applications or Connected Devices |
| TYPE | Operating System Features, Bugs and Problems |
| DESC | Apple |
| DESC | 10.4.X (Tiger) |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (Intel) |
| MODEL | iMac and a macbook |
| PROC | |
| RAM | |
| DRIVE | |
| NAME | rod |
| USERNAME | hrmiller |
| TECHNICAL | Little Experience |
| ISSUE | Lots of Troubleshooting |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> How View a Printer's Definition
hrmiller - Feb 25, 2008 - 5:04 pm
Printer (laserwriter NTR) is on a Sun running Solaris 9.
On an iMac running tiger, the printer is defined using system
preferences windows. Printing to the Sun works fine except that
the font size on files printed from the iMac is larger that I would
like.
I can't get that printer to work from a macbook/leopard. The
amount of time spent experimenting is ridiculous. Print jobs
are sent to the Sun, and the macbook displays Paused as the
printer status. The sun sez in the console window: "Can't
determine requested printer" if I use the default (blank)
queue name. If i use Laserwriter NTR as the queue name,
the sun sez "request to Laserwriter (unknown printer) from
[IP address of the macbook].
1. ASSUMING leopard didn't change how this kind of
printing works, how can I look at the printer definition in
tiger to see what I did so that it works there?
2. How can I change the font size of ascii files that are
printed from leopard?
Thank you for your help.
Rod
On an iMac running tiger, the printer is defined using system
preferences windows. Printing to the Sun works fine except that
the font size on files printed from the iMac is larger that I would
like.
I can't get that printer to work from a macbook/leopard. The
amount of time spent experimenting is ridiculous. Print jobs
are sent to the Sun, and the macbook displays Paused as the
printer status. The sun sez in the console window: "Can't
determine requested printer" if I use the default (blank)
queue name. If i use Laserwriter NTR as the queue name,
the sun sez "request to Laserwriter (unknown printer) from
[IP address of the macbook].
1. ASSUMING leopard didn't change how this kind of
printing works, how can I look at the printer definition in
tiger to see what I did so that it works there?
2. How can I change the font size of ascii files that are
printed from leopard?
Thank you for your help.
Rod
gsahli - Feb 25, 2008 - 6:36 pm
I hope I can help. I have linux-mac-PC experience, but no Solaris experience.
Does Solaris use CUPS as the print control system?
The standard network printing protocols (LPR/LPD, IPP) require the queue name of the destination print server. You will need to find this on Solaris if you want to use those protocols.
Try lpstat -v in a terminal window (should work on OS X, too).
To see the details of the OS X printer list, use the CUPS internal web page interface. Use a browser and type this:
http://localhost:631
Click on printers and then in the list of printers, look at the entries for printer driver and URI.
When you talk about ascii files being printed, are you using command line lp or lpr commands? Otherwise, all printing on OS X starts life as postscript (or PDF which is encoded postscript).
Is it possible you have appletalk/netatalk running on Solaris and you should be trying the "Default Browser" window instead of IP printer when you Add/+ in Print & Fax prefs?
Does Solaris use CUPS as the print control system?
The standard network printing protocols (LPR/LPD, IPP) require the queue name of the destination print server. You will need to find this on Solaris if you want to use those protocols.
Try lpstat -v in a terminal window (should work on OS X, too).
To see the details of the OS X printer list, use the CUPS internal web page interface. Use a browser and type this:
http://localhost:631
Click on printers and then in the list of printers, look at the entries for printer driver and URI.
When you talk about ascii files being printed, are you using command line lp or lpr commands? Otherwise, all printing on OS X starts life as postscript (or PDF which is encoded postscript).
Is it possible you have appletalk/netatalk running on Solaris and you should be trying the "Default Browser" window instead of IP printer when you Add/+ in Print & Fax prefs?
hrmiller - Feb 25, 2008 - 9:35 pm
Thank you. Your suggest of http://localhost:631 led me to the hint
that I needed to specify the queue name in the Solaris machine as
lw. That worked.
On the 2nd question, size of the font, some commands that result
in the larger font are: date | lp; man date | lp; etc.
Rod
that I needed to specify the queue name in the Solaris machine as
lw. That worked.
On the 2nd question, size of the font, some commands that result
in the larger font are: date | lp; man date | lp; etc.
Rod
gsahli - Feb 25, 2008 - 10:55 pm
I would try the -o options here:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/lp-cups
http://linux.die.net/man/1/lp-cups
hrmiller - Feb 27, 2008 - 5:04 pm
Thanks
Using -o cpi=xx produces a smaller font for files printed from the iMac. It will be an irritant, but I can live with
date|lp on the sun
and
date|lp -o cpi=15 on the iMac
in order to produce similar sized output for print from either machine.
The font differs between files printed from the two machines. All this must
be configurable. Can someone tell me where? I don't what to have to study CUPS in order to make that simple change.
Rod
Using -o cpi=xx produces a smaller font for files printed from the iMac. It will be an irritant, but I can live with
date|lp on the sun
and
date|lp -o cpi=15 on the iMac
in order to produce similar sized output for print from either machine.
The font differs between files printed from the two machines. All this must
be configurable. Can someone tell me where? I don't what to have to study CUPS in order to make that simple change.
Rod
gsahli - Feb 27, 2008 - 5:48 pm
I don't know that. Would you like me to send you back to the rest of the Techs?
hrmiller - Feb 27, 2008 - 6:08 pm
I'm getting an idea of how this site works - it looks like when a tech accepts/responds to a question they own it until is is resolved, or in this case, turned back into the tech pool.
Please turn this back into the pool. Thank you.
Rod
Please turn this back into the pool. Thank you.
Rod
TechSupport - Mar 1, 2008 - 6:10 pm
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