Hi!
My original post:
> We moved our print server from a SunOS 4.1.3_U machine to Sol 2.5.1. The
> printer is an HPl laser jet 4si. We installed it using HP's jetadmin
> software . Now the printer prints with a bigger fontsize. How do I change it
> back?
I finally just set it on the keypad because I could not find any other
solution. I changed it from 60 lines to a page to 66 (which is what I needed
to print man pages, RFCs etc.).
Like Alex, I wasn't able to make the command line options work either.
Complete answers follow.
Thanks folks!
Rasana
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From: Alex Finkel <afinkel@pfn.com>
I have a LJ 4 Plus that I set up with JetAdmin on Solaris 2.x. I was also
unable to change the font or font size from the Sun. There are supposed to
be command line options that you can use but I was never able to make them
work. I manually set the printer's default font on the keypad, so that
anything that comes from UNIX uses a smaller font. The setting has no
affect on printing from other platforms such as Windows NT/95.
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From: Arthur Darren Dunham <add@is.rice.edu>
I don't know what your setup is there. On our 4.1.x machines, we ran
TranScript on the print server. It took text files, ran enscript and
sent the resulting PS file to the printer (worked great on Apple
LaserWriters).
When we got the HP's, they came with some JetAdmin spooler stuff. Well,
the HP spooler stuff doesn't do enscript. It just tries to detect Text
vs. PS. If it's text, it shoves it to the printer in PJL mode. Guess
what? The default text font you get in PJL mode on the printer is just
a *bit* different than the default text font from enscript after it
becomes a PS file.
I don't know what you were using the 4.1.x machine, so I'm not certain
that this is the same thing but it sounds similar.
Good Luck.
(P.S. We haven't found any good way of replacing TranScript. It's
really a dog program these days and I don't trust it on Solaris. We've
just kept a 4.1.4 machine around to print with).
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>From john@eos.oncology.uthscsa.edu Thu Oct 17 12:57:01 1996
What is it that your are printing: ascii/pcl or postscript?
The other question is (for PCL) - is it the font size or the
pitch or the virtical line spacing that has changed?
Postscript the problem could be due to a scaling in a banner page
and not doing a endofjob or ^D or resettodefaults before the job
is started.
Otherwise you can look in the interface for printer and see the
filters that are called in /opt/hpnp. These are likely to be
shell scripts that you can edit.
The other thing about jetdirect is somewhere under the hpnp tree
the is a file with information about the printer, that could be
different that what it was under 4.1.3 because the version of
the HPNP software is likely to be different. You could try to
choose another printer type and see what happens or try to modify
this file.
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