Anybody here a SCO OSR6 Printer Guru?

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 02:55P Thu Aug 07 2014, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> This Is A Copy Of A Message Forwarded To "jlasman52 at gmail.com".
> 
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> 
> James Flanagan propounded (on Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 07:27:12PM -0400):
> | JP, 
> | 
> | It appears that you are heading me in the right direction
> | 
> | I reviewed the page that you recommended: 
http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/showta?taid=126336
> | 
> | And that led me to this, which appears to be exactly what I am looking for 
(assuming I have a firm grasp on this): 
> http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/showta?taid=126532
> | 
> | However, when i attempt to run the command (without the -E because it will 
not run with it), I get the following error.
> | 
> | # /usr/lib/lpadmin -p xc550 -v socket://192.168.254.60:9100 -m 
xrx550XC.ppd
> | UX:lpadmin: ERROR: "socket://192.168.254.60:9100" doesn't exist.
> |            TO FIX: Create the file, special device, or FIFO
> |                    for the -v option before running this
> |                    command.
> | 
> | I have reviewed socket creation in the manual, but that does not appear to 
apply to this.  any idea how to create whatever SCO is looking for?  
> thank you very much, 
> 
> 
> I've never tried to use any command line instructions for CUPS printers.
> Just fire up a graphical desktop on your SCO machine and enter the CUPS
> console at http://localhost:631 (or do it from a windows browser pointed
> to http://SCO6-IP-number:631). It isn't hard to use.
> 
> Or better, forget CUPS and follow Bill's Campbell's suggestion. Aren't
> you already using filePro print codes for two trays?  Are they along the
> lines of "$1b &l#H", where # is 1, 2, 3 or 4?  Concoct similar codes
> with # being a single digit other than the two already used for trays
> one and two.  HP did NOT assign them sequentially.  ;-(

With the mention of a PPD file, I assume that this is a Postscript Job 
Stream and HP PCL codes don't count for anything.



Jim 
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