1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2 3<html> 4 <head> 5 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> 6 <title>Lexmark Printers</title> 7 <meta name="GENERATOR" content= 8 "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"> 9 <link rel="HOME" title=" LPRng Reference Manual" href= 10 "index.htm"> 11 <link rel="UP" title="Printcap Database " href= 12 "printcapref.htm"> 13 <link rel="PREVIOUS" title= 14 "Using Programs To Get Printcap Information " href= 15 "secnis.htm"> 16 <link rel="NEXT" title="Tektronix Phaser Printers " href= 17 "p450.htm"> 18 </head> 19 20 <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link= 21 "#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 22 <div class="NAVHEADER"> 23 <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border= 24 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 25 <tr> 26 <th colspan="3" align="center">LPRng Reference Manual: 5 27 Sep 2003 (For LPRng-3.8.22)</th> 28 </tr> 29 30 <tr> 31 <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href= 32 "secnis.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 33 34 <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 35 12. Printcap Database</td> 36 37 <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href= 38 "p450.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 39 </tr> 40 </table> 41 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 42 </div> 43 44 <div class="SECT1"> 45 <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="AEN6228">12.19. Lexmark 46 Printers</a></h1> 47 48 <p>Some Lexmark printers do not send <span class= 49 "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">end of job</i></span> status 50 back unless configured to do so. Here is what is needed to 51 force this. (This capability has been incorporated into the 52 <b class="APPLICATION">ifhp</b> filter.)</p> 53 54 <div class="INFORMALEXAMPLE"> 55 <a name="AEN6233"></a> 56<pre class="SCREEN"> 57 From: Matt White <whitem@bofh.usask.ca> 58 To: lprng@lprng.com 59 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:25:50 -0600 (CST) 60 Subject: Re: [LPRng] ifhp with Lexmark Optra N printer 61 62 On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Simon Greaves wrote: 63 64 > Apologies in advance if this is way off mark, but we've been 65 > evaluating a commercial print charging package (Geomica) which 66 > works by talking to the printer in what I think is a similar way 67 > to the ifhp filters. Lexmarks are currently a big headache because 68 > they seem to fail to return the message that they have finished 69 > printing which screws things up somewhat. In our case, it is believed 70 > to be a problem with the Lexmark firmware which they are looking 71 > into. 72 73 There is a fix for that...it is originally from the Lexmark 4039 74 series, but it still works on the Optra S 1650 machines that we 75 have (and should work on the rest of the optra line). Just send 76 this little chunk of postscript to the printer once: 77 78 -----------snip---------- 79 %! Postscript to set the 4039 printer into synchronous mode 80 serverdict begin 0 exitserver 81 statusdict begin true setenginesync end 82 -----------snip---------- 83 84 Basically, it causes the printer to wait until it is finished 85 printing before actually reporting that it is done. I've got 3 86 Optra S printers running with ifhp right now with no extra options 87 (just defaults). 88 89 ----------------------------------------------------------- 90 - Matt White whitem@arts.usask.ca 91 - Network Technical Support http://arts.usask.ca/~whitem 92 - College of Arts & Science University of Saskatchewan 93 ----------------------------------------------------------- 94</pre> 95 </div> 96 <br> 97 <br> 98 </div> 99 100 <div class="NAVFOOTER"> 101 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 102 103 <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border= 104 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 105 <tr> 106 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href= 107 "secnis.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 108 109 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 110 "index.htm" accesskey="H">Home</a></td> 111 112 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href= 113 "p450.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 114 </tr> 115 116 <tr> 117 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Using Programs 118 To Get Printcap Information</td> 119 120 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 121 "printcapref.htm" accesskey="U">Up</a></td> 122 123 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Tektronix 124 Phaser Printers</td> 125 </tr> 126 </table> 127 </div> 128 </body> 129</html> 130 131