Hi Norm, Sorry, I meant to mention that the z600 PPD I'm using is not included in Solaris -- I extracted it from the Linux driver package on Lexmark's website. Inspecting it now, I see there is no foomaticRIPCommandLine, so I suppose that explains some of my problems. I really have no idea how these work, and just assumed they were generic.
I'm going to look at some of the Lexmark PPDs that ship with Solaris and see if I can come up with a workable line to cat to my printer. If I manage that, is there anything else I will need to add to the PPD besides that entry? Thanks, Eric On 10/29/06, Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at sun.com> wrote: > > I didn't find the z600 PPD file, so I couldn't verify if we even ship > the driver that it uses. The foomaticRIPCommandLine from the PPD file > will tell you what foomatic runs to convert from PostScript to "printer > ready" format. It's possible, but not likely that it uses a GhostScript > driver that we didn't enable. It's also possible that it includes > something like foo2zjs or another driver that for one reason or another > isn't shipped. That being said, It wasn't clear if data was being sent to > the printer and dropped or not. > You might start by generating a file with printer ready output using the > foomatidRIPCommandLine information and cat that to the device first. If > you are successful, we can work out any issues that LP my be causing. > > -Norm > > Eric Enright wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to get my Lexmark z517 to print. The z600 PPD is reported > > to work on Linux, so I am using that. I followed example 3-1 in the > > SX admin guide to create the printer, and that went fine. However, > > when I try to print anything with lp or lpr, it seems to spool, but > > nothing on the printer actually happens. I've also used printmgr > > (with a manually edited ppdcache) to achieve the same, but still > > nothing. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > eric at yamano:~ (82)# lp -d paper ~/Documents/test.ps > > request id is paper-17 (1 file(s)) > > eric at yamano:~ (83)# lpq -P paper > > paper: processing > > Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size > > 1st root 17 test.ps 5850 bytes > > eric at yamano:~ (84)# lpstat -p paper > > printer paper idle. enabled since October 28, 2006 6:23:18 PM EDT. > > available. > > > > The queue empties after a moment, and my logs contain nothing. > > > > -- Eric Enright
