printing to KM Bizhub 421 SCO/filepro

Thu Feb 26 13:07:18 PST 2009

  Well, perhaps 1/2 the battle is taken care of.....

  after running the script Jose pointed to.....from the command line I can
print
  cat text.txt | netcat -hbizhub -p9100

  and the test text file I created printed fine without issue....yea!!!
  So, for the first time I have printed to these monster printers from the
SCO box.

  Now, I just need to know how to get filepro to use this to print.

  Brian - thanks for your reply.

  Are you saying I should install the 2 links that you provided, leave the
lp -dbizhub -s
  command the way it is in filePro and everything should be fine?
  I'm hoping it's that easy.......

  Anxious to get the other 1/2 of this issue resolved so my client can get
rid of their other
  junk printers and just use these 2 big bizhubs for all their printing.

  BTW - I did not create an /etc/printers file.....is that part necessary
for filePro to see it?

  All this printer stuff is not my expertise obviously. Haha

  Scott

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Brian K. White <brian at aljex.com> wrote:

>
> 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 <fp at fpgroups.com>
>  *Cc:* filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> *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!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jose Lerebours
>> http://www.fpgroups.com
>> 954-559-7186
>> filePro + PHP Solution Developer
>>
>>
>>
>>
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