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by ikonwhip

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I have a customer in which we setup bsd ports to print to remote printers, however the printer is not accepting my command line headers, -o landscape or the length of the page how can i associate a print driver such as a HP5SI to this bsd port to get call out functions I have the hex codes for the printer but it ignores my headers how can I resolve this also this customer uses a program called MFG pro which I am having the same problem with but it is unix based I'm sure if I can fix it unix I can resolve it in this application

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by bryanhodgson

What species of Unix? (Most Unixes do BSD-style printing ...)

The model file for this printer doesn't know about an HP5Si. If you're ambitious, you can find and edit the model file.

A simpler solution might be to go to www.hp.com/support and see if jetadmin is available for your platform.

by cavedweller

I did a similar setup a few years ago. My hp jetdirect interface had an internal lpr server with both raw and text queues. I setup 2 queues on my unix server which spooled print requests to the printer. As I recall, in the printcap file I set rm=to the dns name of the printer and rp= to "raw" when I setup the postscript queue and rp= "text" for a text only queue. Client machines printed to the queues on the unix server instead of directly to the printer.

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