remote printing on aix5.3

[nyck]

I have been asked to setup a printer on one of our IBM servers and the only choice that I have is to use a Canon network printer. Can this be done?

Is it a case of setting this up via WSM/SMIT?

 

[victorv]

hi,
which kind of printer, do you need to setup, (the model)
and whit document do you need to print?
Is this a printer with a normal network card ?

bye
victor

 

[nyck]

Hello,

The printer in question is a Canon iRC3580i and I would like to be able to print postscript and plain text files. This printer is a network printer but not JetDirect

 

[victorv]

hi,
are you able to manage this print from windows?
If from win you can access it by a standard tcpip port
and use the appropriate driver, you can use jetdirect from AIX

Define printer ipadderss in /etc/hosts, then do

smitty mkpq
type=jetdirect, hostname=what you put in /etc/hosts
port=9100

then, I cannot be precise, choose as p (postscript) quename,
canonp; I suggest to add also a normal queue (in the name session) and give name canona (as ascii, flat).

If all is ok, begin to queue from command line a normal
text file on the ascii queue
enq -P canona anyfile.txt

and

enq -P canonp anyfile.ps.

If you don't like this way, or for some motivation it does
not go, you can try to use this printer via windows
(probably it is already used via some pc/winserver).
If you want follow this 2nd way, you can see a my old faq
faq52-3563 or post again here if something is not clear or
it is too old ("much water is passed under the bridge" from 2003).

ciao
vittorio


I will try to

 

[nyck]

hello,

I have got this all setup and its able to print ascii but does not like postscript files. After jetdirect had been installed my printer did not appear in the list so I selected the generic one for Canon but alas does not work too well. It could of been the postscript file I used so I will locate one that I know works and try again with that.

 

[victorv]

hi,
jet direct is just the way in you reach the printer:
it may be parallel, serial, or remote (a printer on another computer). There is a further step in which you decide wich kind of queue you are creating: for my knows, in AIX
(also for generic printer type) there are 3 kinds of queue:

Ascii
Prostscript
GL

you see all this 3 choice (together) in a smitty form when you do the smitty mkpq

I usually give a name for each of them, then, when all is going, I delete what I don't need:

PrinterA
PrinterP
PrinterGL (I use these for Plotters)

Are you in the situazion in which giving
lpstat
you see

canona ...
canonp ... ?

bye