printing to KM Bizhub 421 SCO/filepro

Thu Feb 26 12:40:25 PST 2009

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.
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.

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.
I myself use these:
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#rlpnc
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#rlpr

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.
Unfortunately I don't have time to help in too much. If you google "osr5 netcat" or "netcat printing"
You get several more detaled articles that are all variations on the same idea.
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.

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? 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.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: scooter6 at gmail.com 
  To: Jose Lerebours 
  Cc: filePro Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:09 PM
  Subject: Re: printing to KM Bizhub 421 SCO/filepro

   okay so I have run this script and installed the printer.

   On the filePro side, in Printer Maintenance, all my other "normal" printers use
   lp -d<printer name> -s  to send print jobs to it.

   What do I need to have here for the new BizHub printer I added....I assume a
   netcat xxxxxxxxxx  command rather than lp -d<printer name> -s ???

   thanks - hopefully I'm getting closer

   Scott

  On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Jose Lerebours <fp at fpgroups.com> wrote:

    Scott posted:
    ----------------------

    Trying to get the ability to print to a printer/copier/scanner that is a
    Konica Minolta Bizhub 421 from SCO Openserver 5.0.5 with new filepro 5.6
    upgrade that we did this weekend.........is this even possible?
    Client's vendor suggested using HP LaserJet 4 drivers out of Unix and it
    should work....but...uhh.....not so simple apparently...ha

    ----------------------

    Have you tried using NETCAT?  I print to a KONICA 451 and have problem
    at all ... In the filePro side I use hplaser as the driver/type and in
    SCO I use a driver I got from Jim Asman many months ago ... No, I do not
    attempt to staple, punch holes, print to an user box nor any of those
    fancy stuff you can do with these units.

    Here I posted a shell script I put together to ease this process ... Let
    me know if you need help with this solution

    http://www.fpgroups.com/index.php?Target=code&Action=read&Code=14

    Good luck!

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    Jose Lerebours
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    filePro + PHP Solution Developer

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