<div> Well, perhaps 1/2 the battle is taken care of.....</div>
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<div> after running the script Jose pointed to.....from the command line I can print</div>
<div> cat text.txt | netcat -hbizhub -p9100</div>
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<div> and the test text file I created printed fine without issue....yea!!!</div>
<div> So, for the first time I have printed to these monster printers from the SCO box.</div>
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<div> Now, I just need to know how to get filepro to use this to print.</div>
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<div> Brian - thanks for your reply.</div>
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<div> Are you saying I should install the 2 links that you provided, leave the lp -dbizhub -s</div>
<div> command the way it is in filePro and everything should be fine?</div>
<div> I'm hoping it's that easy.......</div>
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<div> Anxious to get the other 1/2 of this issue resolved so my client can get rid of their other</div>
<div> junk printers and just use these 2 big bizhubs for all their printing.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> BTW - I did not create an /etc/printers file.....is that part necessary for filePro to see it?</div>
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<div> All this printer stuff is not my expertise obviously. Haha</div>
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<div> Scott<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Brian K. White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@aljex.com">brian@aljex.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You could put a netcat or rlpr command right in filepri but I would still use lp in filepro, use netcat in the printer interface script in the OS.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">lp is a spooler and you want that. Let filepro feed jobs to the spooler as fast as it wants, let the spooler do it's job of collecting jobs and feeding them one at a time to the printer. The printer probably has some ability to spool up jobs too but the OS will do that a lot better.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What you want is to know how to configure that printer and that print-server in the OS, which is better asked on comp.unix.sco.misc.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I myself use these:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#rlpnc" target="_blank">http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#rlpnc</a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#rlpr" target="_blank">http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#rlpr</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">There is technically all the necessary info right there at those links, terse as it is, but really it could use some expanding I guess.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Unfortunately I don't have time to help in too much. If you google "osr5 netcat" or "netcat printing"</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You get several more detaled articles that are all variations on the same idea.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I happen to think mine is the most convenient & flexible way (it's all I've used for years, tons of boxes, without a hitch) but they all ultimately work and some of the other articles are very clear and describe every step in full exact detail.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You will still need to know info about your printer and it's built-in print-server. Does it support raw tcp? (it may call this "jetdirect protocol"), does it support lpr/lpd? If it supports lpd, what are the queue names? </font><font face="Arial" size="2">If it supports both raw tcp and lpd, which one does it do more reliably? Probably that will require you testing, and that's where my script above comes in handy, it's trivial to switch a printer from netcat to lpd or back, or switch it's IP, etc just by editing the line for that printer in /etc/printers, without disrupting anything else on the system. filepro or anything else never sees and difference and you don't even have to go into scoadmin or restart the spooler service.</font></div>
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<div> okay so I have run this script and installed the printer.</div>
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<div> On the filePro side, in Printer Maintenance, all my other "normal" printers use</div>
<div> lp -d<printer name> -s to send print jobs to it.</div>
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<div> What do I need to have here for the new BizHub printer I added....I assume a</div>
<div> netcat xxxxxxxxxx command rather than lp -d<printer name> -s ???</div>
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<div> thanks - hopefully I'm getting closer</div>
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<div> Scott<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jose Lerebours <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fp@fpgroups.com" target="_blank">fp@fpgroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Trying to get the ability to print to a printer/copier/scanner that is a<br>Konica Minolta Bizhub 421 from SCO Openserver 5.0.5 with new filepro 5.6<br>upgrade that we did this weekend.........is this even possible?<br>
Client's vendor suggested using HP LaserJet 4 drivers out of Unix and it<br>should work....but...uhh.....not so simple apparently...ha<br><br></div>----------------------<br><br>Have you tried using NETCAT? I print to a KONICA 451 and have problem<br>
at all ... In the filePro side I use hplaser as the driver/type and in<br>SCO I use a driver I got from Jim Asman many months ago ... No, I do not<br>attempt to staple, punch holes, print to an user box nor any of those<br>
fancy stuff you can do with these units.<br><br>Here I posted a shell script I put together to ease this process ... Let<br>me know if you need help with this solution<br><br><a href="http://www.fpgroups.com/index.php?Target=code&Action=read&Code=14" target="_blank">http://www.fpgroups.com/index.php?Target=code&Action=read&Code=14</a><br>
<br><br>Good luck!<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br>Jose Lerebours<br><a href="http://www.fpgroups.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fpgroups.com</a><br>954-559-7186<br>filePro + PHP Solution Developer<br><br><br><br>
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