ITEM: AT8443L

printing postscript from Netview to remote Windows NT server

ENV: AIX 3.2.5
     Model 7013-58H
     Netview 3.1
     HP LaserJet 4M attached to Windows NT server

DESC: Defined remote queue on RS/6000 running Netview pointing to
Windows NT server which owns the HP printer.  Printer prints header
page and then single characters on subsequent pages.

ACT: Checked remote print queue and remote print queue devices 
defintions they look ok.  Suspect a problem with how Netview defintions
were setup for the printer or NT definitions for the printer.  Caller
said other print jobs direct from NT work fine.  Caller said HP 
printer was set to print both PCL and PS (Postscript).  Caller got
local NT person on line who said postscript commands were being printed
on paper.  It appears that the printer is in PCL mode and is printing
the postscript command language source.

ACT:
        Tried sending a job from the command line:

        qprt -Pfuji /usr/lib/lpd/pio/burst/H.ps

        The PostScript directoves are printed out - not taken
        as PostScript commands.  This is generally caused by the machine
        sending the print data encapsulating the PostScript data with
        a PCL initialization that "confuses" the printer into thinking
        the data is PCL and not PostScript.

        lpr -l -h -Pfuji /usr/lib/lpd/pio/burst/H.ps

        The "blank" header page printed properly.  Using lpr -l sends
        flags to the NT server telling it "don't modify or format
        this data - just pass it to the printer unmodified."

        Tried to get NetView to use the lpr -l command by changing
        the DefaultPrinterCommand from lp to lpr -l in the file
        /usr/OV/app-defaults/XNm but this didn't work.

        Tried to get around the problem by double queueing.  Created
        a PostScript virtual printer "testfuji.null" and changed the
        _mo attribute = /usr/bin/lpr -l -h -Pfuji

        Now your Netview maps are printing fine to the NT server's
        printer BUT you are getting a header burst page.  First,
        verified that it was an AIX header, not an NT header.  It
        was an AIX header.  You have header=never in your virtual
        printer testfuji and the _mo has -h to supress header pages
        when it requeues to the remote queue!

        Changed _j=!
                _J=!
                _d=p

        To get rid of the burst pages - no luck - they still print.

        Changed _sh=            (nothing)
                _st=            (nothing)

        So that there is NO WAY the virtual printer even knows the
        command to generate the burst pages.  This resolved the
        problem - Netview maps print fine to the Windows NT server.

To summarize:

        1) Create a remote queue to the NT server
        2) Create a virtual printer
        3)   Change the virtual printer's attributes as follows:
                mo=/usr/bin/lpr -l -P\
                sh=
                st=



Support Line: printing postscript from Netview to remote Windows NT server ITEM: AT8443L

Dated: January 1996 Category: N/A

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