Thanks to all who replied so far. Received responses from John Julian, Yong Yi, Srinivas Duddupudi and Doug Winter. Suggestions so far were to: "use a Linux print server" "use Ghostscript" "usr lpadmin" ('lpadmin -p print -I any -s <Printer hostname>' a command variation we hadn't tried on this end) "use CUPS" Of these, we're focucing on the lpadmin variation since neither CUPS nor Linux are options at this point in time and my research into Ghostscript, though incomplete, does not lead me to believe it's the solution. Problem continues to be that Canon has Solaris drivers for only one of its printers and nothing to support Solaris 2.7, 2.8 or 2.9. Will report back on our progress when we've had a chance to run additional tests. Thanks, again, everyone. Original post: We've been called upon to support a fairly wide variety of Canon laserjet printers under Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and (soon) 2.9. What we've found is that Canon has virtually no Unix drivers and zero support for what they do have. The only Solaris drivers Canon offers at present is for their IR210 printer and it's current only on Solaris versions 2.6 and below. Needless to say, we've been hesitant to try this driver on new versions of Solaris and have no reason to believe it'll work on Canon printers other than the IR210. The Canon printers we'll be working with are: IR210 IR220 I330S IR400N IR440 IR2800 Though we had *some* success installing certain printers via HP's jetadmin and Solaris' native lpadmin, some printers weren't so cooperative. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone on the list that's had success with Canon hardware under Solaris. Thanks, all. -------------------------------------------- Jim Coleman Unix Administrator GE Corporate Global Computer Operations 214 Seventh Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101 304 424-5409, DC: 8*572-5409, Fax: 304 424-5499 Jim.Coleman@corporate.ge.com "There is nothing less productive than to make more efficient that which should not be done at all." Peter Drucker _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jan 6 11:05:54 2003
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