Anybody here a SCO OSR6 Printer Guru?

[Jim Asman]

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At 04:35P 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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> Jim Asman propounded (on Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:23:12PM -0700):
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> | --------------- Original Message ---------------
> | At 02:55P Thu Aug 07 2014, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
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> | > 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.
> 
> In his first message, James wrote: "SCO and file pro can print to the
> printer just fine to the 2 standard trays", so I inferred that filePro was
> issuing PCL codes.
> 

As I recall, this was a big Xerox copier. That being the case, the proper
coding would have to come from Xerox. Even with the HPs with PCL, the
correct number operator for a particular tray may be dependent on the printer
model.


Jim 
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