SETTING UP AN HP PRINTER FOR PX

Printer support is provided, through contract, by ESP, Tulsa. The contact person is Tom Rudolph at 918.437.4920, ext. 202.

Online help can be found at the ESP site: www.campus-tulsa.com
SGU username & pw are: sgc, 80174

On the Printer Support page, you’ll find these instructions. We’ve used these instructions successfully on all our HP printers:

Adding a VMS Print Queue for
HP JetDirect Printer Support
Using TCPIP

1. This example creates print queue LASERJET1 on a printer at IP address 164.58.62.51

2. $ INITIALIZE /QUEUE/START/ON="164.58.62.51:9100" -
/PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM/DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=HP_LETTER) -
LASERJET1

Once the printer is configured and responding properly, a line must be added to the SPOOLERS.COM file on the PX server to initialize the printer when the system is rebooted. An example of a printer named CLAB1:

$ !Computer Lab printer HP 2300

$ INIT/QUEUE/START/ON="172.30.254.44:9100"/PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM-

/DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=HP12ADM) CLAB1

To add the line, you must have edit privileges and be logged in to the system account. The text editor is just that—-not an ordinary word processor. Contact the system manager if you need instructions, or while in Edit, press the F4 key, then type HELP. Make a copy of the spoolers.com file and then edit the file:

$> COPY SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SPOOLERS.COM SPOOLERS_07242006.COM

$> EDIT SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SPOOLERS.COM

In addition, a formtype must be assigned which matches the setup of the printer. On the PX system, a printer que and a formtype work together to yield the desired output (margins, no leading blank pages, orientation, font size, etc). The formtypes for HP printers are found in FORMSTYPE.COM. Editing this file may be necessary to add a new formtype.

To view these files:

$> TYPE/PAGE=SAVE SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SPOOLERS.COM

$> TYPE/PAGE=SAVE SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]FORMSTYPE.CO

$> MAIL/SUBJ=SPOOLERS SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]SPOOLERS.COM SYSMGR (use your PX username and the file will be sent to your Outlook Inbox)

Other system commands which may be helpful:

$> show que/device/full

$> show que/dev/full clab1

You can learn more by typing HELP at the system prompt:

$> HELP