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From: Marc Miller <_ADDRESS_ELIDED_@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:49:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: PPR: PCL & majordomo index Alright, two vaguely related topics: 1. Our brand new HP LJ 8150DN printer is throwing out a lot of jobs, giving "invalidfont" command "deffont" errors. I talked to HP; they said their printers emulate PostScript but it's not really Adobe PostScript. So I rigged PPR to let PCL jobs go straight through (PCL is the printer's native language). I'm providing details of how I did that below, but the jist of the problem is that with it being passed straight through like that, we lose the page accounting. We get an "undef" error when the page accounting is turned on. Anyone know a way around that? 2. I wanted to see if PCL was a topic covered on this list before, but I couldn't figure out how to get "ppr-list-digest" as instructed on the FAQ web page. It says to send the help command to majordomo, but the help wasn't helpful. I tried doing a "get ppr-list ppr-list-digest" and "get index ppr-list" but that just gave me a "file not found" and a blank list of files. The PCL workaround: I'm using an LJ8150DN with the Windows 95 PCL 6 driver from HP. Rather than have Samba execute ppr, it scans the first 1 or 4 lines for a PostScript header, and if found sends the job through with the - -Htransparent option. If in the first 14 lines it finds the text "HP-PCL" it also sends it through with the -Htransparent option. The printer is set to "trustme" and to be on the safe side (though it seems it's not really necessary since it isn't recognized as PCL) I've enabled the "passthru pcl" option. That works quite well, except for the page accounting. That's critical for a university like ours that caps the print quota user-by-user. ============================================================ /\/\arc ._|. /\/\iller (_ADDRESS_ELIDED_@mailbox.ucdavis.edu) Computer Room Consultant Information Technology/Lab Management ============================================================ I can be contacted through the Communication Center link from http://www.mother.com/~mjmiller/