Thanks to Glenn Burkhardt, Richard Brodie, and John P. Nelson for their
responses.
Suggested reference documents:
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ps.html
http://www.ettl.co.at/heiligenblut/mike/pcl5/pjltkref.pdf
http://www.ettl.co.at/heiligenblut/mike/pcl5/ctechref.pdf
Below is the modified smbprint.sysv that includes PCL/PJL to print w/o manual
intervention. You may need to use the comments to recover control characters in
the PCL/PJL control statements.
Mike Box Phone: (540)231-9506
Systems Administrator Fax: (540)231-3863
Department of Statistics E-mail: Mike.Box@vt.edu
Virginia Tech
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#!/bin/sh
#
# @(#) smbprint.sysv version 1.0 Ross Wakelin <r.wakelin@march.co.uk>
#
# Version 1.0 13 January 1995
# modified from the original smbprint (bsd) script
#
# this script is a System 5 printer interface script. It
# uses the smbclient program to print the file to the specified smb-based
# server and service.
#
# To add this to your lp system, copy this file into your samba directory
# (the example here is /opt/samba), modify the server and service variables
# and then execute the following command (as root)
#
# lpadmin -punixprintername -v/dev/null -i/opt/samba/smbprint
#
# where unixprintername is the name that the printer will be known as
# on your unix box.
#
# the script smbprint will be copied into your printer administration
# directory (/usr/lib/lp or /etc/lp) as a new interface
# (interface/unixprintername)
# Then you have to enable unixprintername and accept unixprintername
#
# This script will then be called by the lp service to print the files
# This script will have 6 or more parameters passed to it by the lp service.
# The first five will contain details of the print job, who queued it etc,
# while parameters 6 onwards are a list of files to print. We just
# cat these at the samba client.
#
# Set these to the server and service you wish to print to
# In this example I have a WfWg PC called "lapland" that has a printer
# exported called "printer" with no password.
#
# clear out the unwanted parameters
shift;shift;shift;shift;shift
# now the argument list is just the files to print
server=admin
service=hplj2
password=""
(
# NOTE You may wish to add the line `echo translate' if you want automatic
# CR/LF translation when printing.
echo translate
echo "print -"
echo `tail -2 $0 | head -1`
cat $*
echo `tail -1 $0`
) | /opt/samba/smbclient "\\\\$server\\$service" $password -N -P >
/dev/null
exit $?
Character and hexadecimal display (from od command) of PCL statements below:
0000000 033 % - 1 2 3 4 5 X 033 E
1b25 2d31 3233 3435 581b 4500
0000000 033 \f 033 E 033 % - 1 2 3 4 5 X
1b0c 1b45 1b25 2d31 3233 3435 5800
DO NOT DELETE THESE PCL STATEMENTS:
%-12345XE
E%-12345X345X
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