Dear Steve,
RE:> sorry to ask this question, which is really about Solaris printer
> administration, here but i've looked everywhere else i can think of to
no
> avail. i've got a LaserJet 1100 hooked up to a Solaris box and i want
to
> print to it from W98 clients. for this to happen, the PCL coming from the
> W98 boxes needs to be passed through the print system unmolested. i
can't
> figure out the correct set of filters to place in /etc/lp/fd and the
> correct lpadmin incantations to make this happen.
When creating an HP printer say:
lpadmin -p <HP-printer-name> -I "simple,postscript,pcl"
Then set:
print command = lp -c -d %p -T pcl %s; rm %s
IE: declare all samba jobs of type pcl and all HPs capable of type pcl.
Instead of the lpadmin command you could edit the
/etc/lp/printers/printername/configuration
file and set:
Content types: simple,postscript,pcl
Then lpshut; lpsched the system.
I also have pcl2ps installed using lpfilter.
It's a perl filter I wrote
that strips pcl headers off the postscript jobs
created by the postscript HP drivers
allowing them to be printed on postscript printers.
Hope this is of some use,
michaelj
