Basic lp printing setup on Solaris 10

Question

What changed with lp printing in Solaris 10 from previous versions? I used to use CUPS but can't anymore as Sun stopped uncluding it on the companion CD with later versions of Solaris 10 (U4+). Now I just want a simple print queue setup to a hp 4250 networked printer that will always print landscape,compressed print. We have Solaris 9 boxes with these queues setup without CUPS that work just fine but I guess the same lpadmin, lpfilter, etc. commands don't setup a print queue the same way on Solaris 10 as I can't print to the printer - only 2 sets of banner pages come out. I want to tie a shell script filter to the queue that prepends the esc codes to the print file to make it go landscape and compressed print but nothing prints out but banner pages. If I look at /var/lp/logs/requests most status codes are 0x0100.
I've tried following Sun Doc ID: 212177 as follows:
# vi myfilter.sh
#!/bin/ksh
#Print landscape
echo "^[&l1O"
cat -
# vi /etc/lp/fd/myfilter.fd
Input types: any
Output types: myfilter
Printer types: any
Printers: any
Filter type: fast
Command: /opt/local/bin/myfilter.sh
# lpfilter -f myfilter -F /etc/lp/fd/myfilter.fd
# lpadmin -p myque -o protocol=bsd,dest=<printer hostname> -v /dev/null -m netstandard -T unkown -I myfilter
# enable myque
# accept myque
# lp -dmyque <some_text_file>
result are 2 banner pages and contents of the file to be printerd and /var/lp//logs/requests is 0x0100.
someone please educate me if U can? (I'd take a Dinozo slap to the back of the head from Gibbs as necessaryl!)

Answer 1

Have you tried using the Solaris 10 GUI interface
Launch -> Preferences -> System Preferences -> Add/Remove Printer
Have a look at this thread below
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=354604&#354604
Or
Hi,
After upgrading to Solaris 10 5/08 the Solaris Printer Manager changed so that it offered the following options when adding New Attached Printer dialogue box
Printer Name :
Description :
Printer Port:
Printer Type:
File Contents:
Fault Notification:
Options:
Banner:
After applying patch 138628-06 the New Attached Printer dialogue box reverted to its previous correct configuration
Printer Name:
Description:
Printer Port:
Printer Make:
Printer Model:
Printer Driver:
Fault Notification:
Banner:
A friend is running Solaris 10 10/08 but despite applying 138628-06 it is not showing the extended Printer Manager functions of Make, Model and Driver. How can he enable the extended functionality.
TIA
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Hi,
Problem resolved, a case of RTFM.
In order to avoid a ppd error in the command below you need to ensure the ppd-cache is working and this involves rebuilding the it
# ppdmgr -r
You should now be able to sucessfully add the ppd option as shown below.
It appears that the Make, Model and Driver options do not appear after a clean install of Solaris 10 10/08 in the Printer Manager. However, if you create a printer with a ppd interface and then delete it the options remain. example below.
# lpadmin -p hp1 -v /dev/lp1 -I postscript -m standard_foomatic -n /usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/system/foomatic//HP/HP-DeskJet_950C-hpijs.ppd.gz