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Guide to Printers and Printing
Many asynchronous ASCII terminals
have an auxiliary (AUX) port that can be used to connect a printer.
Terminal-attached printing is supported for terminals attached directly to a
host machine or attached remotely by modem to a host machine.
This section discusses
configuration, maintenance, and problem determination for terminal-attached
printers as well as the following topics:
The following hardware is
supported for terminal-attached printing.
- Cables
- Terminal Devices
- IBM 3151, 3161, 3162,
3163, 3164
- DEC VT100, VT220, VT320,
VT330
- WYSE 30, 50, 60, 350
- Printers
- IBM 2380 Personal
Printer II
- IBM 2381 Personal
Printer II
- IBM 2390 Personal
Printer II
- IBM 2391 Personal
Printer II
- IBM 2380 Personal
Printer II (Model 2)
- IBM 2381 Personal
Printer II (Model 2)
- IBM 2390 Personal
Printer II (Model 2)
- IBM 2391 Personal
Printer II (Model 2)
- IBM 3112 Page Printer
- IBM 3116 Page Printer
- IBM 3130 LaserPrinter
- IBM 4019 LaserPrinter
- IBM 4029 LaserPrinter
- IBM 4037 LaserPrinter
- IBM 4039 LaserPrinter
- IBM 4076 InkJet Printer
- IBM 4201 Model 3
Proprinter III
- IBM 4202 Model 3
Proprinter III XL
- IBM 4207 Model 2
Proprinter X24E
- IBM 4208 Model 2
Proprinter XL24E
- IBM 4247 Printer
- IBM 5204 Quickwriter
- IBM 6400 Printer
- IBM InfoPrint 40 Printer
- IBM Network Color
Printer
- IBM Network Printer 12
- IBM Network Printer 17
- IBM Network Printer 24
- Hewlett-Packard 2500C Color Printer
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
II
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
III
- Hewlett Packard LaserJet
IIISi
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
4
- Hewlett Packard LaserJet
4Si
- Hewlett Packard LaserJet
4 Plus
- Hewlett Packard LaserJet
4V
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 5000 D640 Printer
- Hewlett Packard
LaserJet 5Si/5Si MX
- Hewlett Packard
LaserJet 5Si Mopier
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 8100 Printer
- Hewlett Packard LaserJet
Color
- Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 4500
- Lexmark Optra
LaserPrinter
- Lexmark Optra E310 Laser Printer
- Lexmark Optra M410 Laser Printer
- Lexmark Optra Se Laser Printer
- Lexmark Optra T Laser Printer Family
- Lexmark Optra W810 Laser Printer
- Lexmark Optra Plus
LaserPrinter
- Lexmark Optra C Color
LaserPrinter
- Lexmark Optra E
LaserPrinter
- Lexmark Optra N
LaserPrinter
- Lexmark ExecJet IIc
- Lexmark ValueWriter 600
- Lexmark 2380 Plus
Printer (Model 3)
- Lexmark 2381 Plus
Printer (Model 3)
- Lexmark 2390 Plus
Printer (Model 3)
- Lexmark 2391 Plus
Printer (Model 3)
- Lexmark 4039 Plus
LaserPrinter
- Lexmark 4079 Color
JetPrinter Plus
- Lexmark 4227 Forms
Printer
- Asynchronous
Communications Adapters
- Native serial port
controller
- 8-port controller
- 16-port controller
- 64-port controller
- 128-port controller
- Third-party controller
Note: Third-party asynchronous controllers are also
supported. When the base operating system detects that an ASCII
terminal was configured with a third-party controller, the terminal-attached
printer will be configured as thoug h it was connected to the native port
controller. See Native, 8-Port, 16-Port, and Third-party Controllers for more information.
To install a new terminal-attached
printer and configure it into the print spooling subsystem, you must:
- Install the physical
ASCII terminal (tty) device and connect it to the system.
- Configure a tty device
driver for the ASCII terminal.
- Connect the serial
printer to the AUX or PRINT port of your ASCII terminal.
- Configure a virtual
printer and print queue.
- Review all relevant
installation planning information and the terminal's documentation to
ensure that you have the components required for installation.
- Review your
system's configuration and select the serial port.
- Ensure that the
communications port is not in use.
- Connect the terminal to
the serial communications port. Be sure to use proper cabling.
Consult your documentation for cabling instructions.
- Configure the terminal
according to the documentation provided with it. Be sure to record the
settings you choose for baud rate, stop bits, bits per character, and flow
control. You will need this information to configure the base operating
system tty device driver.
- Log on as the root
user.
- At the system prompt
type:
Devices
In the Web-based System Manager Devices container, use the menus to
complete the steps to configure the terminal device driver.
- Select the Add a
TTY option and the tty type.
- Provide additional
information as prompted such as the configuration settings you made on your
terminal at installation. If you are not sure of the port number IDs,
press the F4 key to display a list of available I Ds. Be
sure to enter the correct TERMINAL type. When you have entered all
configuration information, press Enter.
You can also perform this task with the SMIT fastpath smit
tty.
After you have configured the
terminal device, enter the following to verify that the terminal is working
and send output directly to the terminal screen:
cat /etc/qconfig > /dev/ttynn
where nn is the
appropriate tty device number. The contents of the
/etc/qconfig file should appear on the terminal screen.
- Review all relevant
installation planning information and the printer's documentation to
ensure that you have the required components and information to install the
printer.
- Review the terminal
documentation for information on connecting printers to the auxiliary
port.
- Verify that the AUX port
on the terminal is configured with the same settings as your printer such as
baud rate, parity, data bits, stop bits, and XON/XOFF.
- For information about
setting values for the AUX port, consult your terminal documentation.
- For information about
configuring the printer's serial interface, consult your printer
documentation.
- Connect the printer to
the terminal's AUX port. Be sure to use the proper cabling.
Consult your documentation for cabling instructions.
Perform the following steps to
configure your terminal-attached printer into the print spooling
subsystem.
- At the system prompt,
type:
Devices
In the Web-based System Manager Devices container, use the menus to
complete the steps to configure a virtual printer and print queue.
- Select the
ascii attachment type, manufacturer, and printer model.
- Provide additional information as prompted.
You can also perform this
procedure with the /usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piomkpq command or with the
SMIT fastpath smit mkpq.
Terminal-attached printing can
also be supported by establishing a queue for a modem line instead of creating
the queue for a specific terminal. Since the terminal type of a dial-in
terminal cannot be guaranteed, set t he PIOTERM environment
variable to the terminal type of the dial-in terminal by entering the
following command:
export PIOTERM=Dialin-Terminal-Type
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