Hi all,
Here are some observations I made on 'presto' and the 'print system'
after installing "Solaris Nevada SunOS 5.11 snv_90" on a Tadpole SPARCle
500 sparc laptop (http://www.tadpole.com/).
1. Plugged in a USB "HP Deskjet 840C"
- presto recognised it correctly and configured it okay :-)
- in the presto 'add printer' box the 'Host:' name is set to
'heffalump' - where did it get that name from (its not the
name of my box) ?
- it configures a print queue with 'banner always', in order
to save 'world paper resources' wouldn't it be better if
that was 'banner never'. After this is probably mainly
aimed at desktop single user machines.
- the PPD file is choose was the first in the list of PPD
files rather than the 'recommended' PPD file.
2. PPD files for "HP Deskjet 840C"
- there are two 'recommended' PPD files in the 'printmgr'
list, one from SUNWfoomatic and the other from
SUNWhpijs - these two files are identical. Maybe the
duplicate PPD files should be got rid of, especially if
they on of the 'recommended' type.
3. printmgr
- if I add a printq with 'Never Print Banner', then modify
that printq the 'banner' option in printmgr says
'User Selectable - Default=on'. 'lpstat -l' shows it set
correctly though.
4. lp printed output
- a line border is printed around the edge of the page,
this is probably from the 'a2ps' filter. 'a2ps' now
seems to want the option '-=lp' set to stop it printing
this border. Maybe that should be added to the
'a2ps filter' command line options, ie. change ..
# lpfilter -l -f a2ps | grep Command:
Command: /usr/bin/a2ps -q -c -B -o- -1
to
Command: /usr/bin/a2ps -q -=lp -c -B -o- -1
That's it - it all looks good :-)
Paul
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Paul Cunningham
Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer Products
General Dynamics Itronix Europe Ltd.
