Printing

[bainy]

Help.

Has anyone come across a printer that prints 2 copies of everything sent to it through unix but only 1 copy of docs sent through other OS's such as Windows. The printer in question I have a problem with is a HP Laserjet 4+ the local settings are set to copies=1 but we get 2 copies of unix prints.

Any ideas??

Thanks.

 

[jad]

umm ... what command/which application are you printing from?

does this printer support PostScript (only some HP4's did)?

if it is postscript and you 'lp /usr/openwin/share/images/PostScript/butterfly.ps' do you get 2 copies of the butterfly?

is the printer attached locally, or over a network?

 

[Annihilannic]

Trawl through its interface script, /etc/lp/interfaces/queuename and see if you can find any clues there perhaps. Annihilannic.

 

[bainy]

I am just doing a straight lp command to the printer and I get 2 copies of the output. The printer queue has been set up the same as every other printer on my network however it seems to be the only one printing 2 copies from unix (solaris) - butterfly print didnt work jad

 

[jad]

how did you configure the printer? with admintool, lpadmin command, or with HP's own software?

 

[bainy]

I configured it with a standard script as follows:

lpadmin -p "$1" -v /dev/null -m netstandard -T hplaserjet -o nobanner -o dest="$1"R5 -o protocol=bsd -o timeout=15

 

[jad]

if you're using Solaris 7 or later, you could try using:

lpadmin -p $1 -s $1\!PR5

(it uses a different model) and see if that fixes it ...

i think the answer will be in the /etc/lp/interfaces/$1 file though, like annihilannic suggested.