6400 printer on AIX5.1

[absi]

Dears
Have anyone succeded in configuring a 6400 IBM Line printer as a network printer on AIX5.1
I just followed all the instructions given in printer manual.
The printer works well except there are some extra characters appearing in the
start of each job and at the end of job.
Also it takes exactly 19 seconds to print each job no matter how small or big it is
I have used pro printer emulation on both AIX and printer hardware configuration
Any ideas......
Absi
This tiger for AIX which has returned

 

[jwtesch]

The extra text at the beginning and end sounds like you are using a different emulation on the printer than the one setup for the virtual printer.

The extra time it takes to print sounds like an issue with the hostname lookup of the printer. You might be able to tell a lot about this by doing an iptrace on port 515 for this printer.

Also there are a number of ways to do network printing on AIX. 1. Standard lpr/lpd which uses rembak to send the jobs to the printer. The backend for this with local formatting is piorlfb. 2. There is the JetDirect network printing options (you don't want to use this for the 6400) as it uses port 9100 by default. 3. There are the IBM Network Printers backends. This uses pioibmnpm for the backend in /etc/qconfig followed by the IP address or name of the printer. I would probably stick with the lpr/lpd (standard remote printer with local formatting).

Look at the queue definition in the /etc/qconfig file and if you have a hostname defined there, you might try changing it to the IP address.