Monitor Print Queue

What would be the best way to monitor print jobs, and pause them? After pausing them I want to ask for user credentials before resuming the print job.
Brandon Donnelson
print-track.sourceforge.net

Something in one of the native programming languages on the operating system you had in mind.

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Monitor Print Queue with java program

I'm plan to write a client/server based application which control the printing for every user. I've no idea how to start on the application.
1. Is it possible to monitor the print queue or print job using java application?
2. How does the server react if the client sending the print job to there? How's the client can trigger the signal during printing and send to the server?
Thank you!

I'm plan to write a client/server based application
which control the printing for every user. I've no
idea how to start on the application.You should establish feasibility first, before planning to write anything
1. Is it possible to monitor the print queue or print
job using java application?Not really. Print queues are highly system-dependent things and some e.g. Windows can really only be accessed via system calls in a native language.
2. How does the server react if the client sending
the print job to there?Err, it prints the file?
How's the client can trigger the signal during printing and send to the server? What signal?
But I suspect the answer to the first question makes the others irrelevant.

Monitor print queue for job size

Hi,
Problem: Occasionally, some print queues are found with a job that is spooling uncontrolled. Job will reach 2/3GB which will cause services to under perform and sometimes crash.
We are looking at understanding the reason why the file is spooling uncontrolled. I believe it is something to do with the fact some of the users are roaming users and when moving site, when arriving to a new site they should get the correct printers for
that site. It is happening that this is not being applied so they print to the printer on the previous site where they were, which seems to cause this behavior.... anyway.. I do not have any more logic details around this.. still exploring..
The question today is, can I set some sort of monitoring on the local print server to alert me when a job on any print queue has reached a specific size?
Or perhaps delete the job automatically if it does reach this threshold.
Thank you

On Server 2012 use the powershell commands included with the product. For 2008R2 and prior use the WMI Interfaces and the scripts included with the OS
prnjobs.vbs to list job size and ID, then when the size is excessive the same script is used to delete the job.
This information at the scripting center looks like what you wish to accomplish
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/9b07ec17-a3ae-427d-a417-c95f05fc515f
Alan Morris formerly with Windows Printing Team

How to monitor , troublesheet SAP Print queues at O/S level (i.e.UNIX, AIX)

Hi All,
In our environment most of the time there is no problem of printing from sap side but from o/s level there are problem and we don't have direct access to o/s. Basis and server admin team from other vendor solved the problem.
But , i need to know is there any document/notes available to monitor and trobleshoot SAP print queues at o/s level? Request you to advice how i can do that?
Thanks

But, many times they say that the print request are stuck in the queue. If this is the case how we going to resolve the problem? Shall we reset the print queue ? How?
You will need to re-enable the queue, again you can write a simple program to use command enable <printer> queue. But at the end of the day if you don't hold administration rights for the OS you need to rely on your "server admin team" to solve the issues with the print server.
This is part of why is important for IT and SAP team to be aligned.
Regards
Juan

Print Queue Status Monitor with Email

I have a brand new Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter virtual server that is setup as a print server. I saw the custom filters in the Print Management console but found out that notifications only work with that console open. Since I'm not logged
into that machine all the time, I need a powershell script that can do what the custom filters do in the Print Management console. Here's what I'm looking for:
1. When the print server starts the script starts. This script should always stay active.
2. The script polls the print queues for a change in status to anything other than Ready every 5 minutes or so.
3. If the printer name contains "CC2", then email certain people the status of that particular printer. Only email them once so as to not spam them with constant emails (maybe 1 email per day per status change).
So basically I'm looking to email my customer service department if one of their printers goes to a status of anything other than Ready. Is something like this possible with Powershell?

My scripts compares the customer service printers (printer names starting with CC2) status every 5 minutes. If the status has changed and there are Offline printers then customer service gets an email. I'm using Task Scheduler to start the script
at 6:00am every day and the script will quit around 11:00pm. It's not very elegant but it will get the job done. Thanks for all your help!
# Time limit when the script expires
$Limit = (Get-Date).AddDays(1)
$SleepSeconds = 300
$PreviousStatus = @()
while ((Get-Date) -lt $Limit)
$CurrentStatus = Get-Printer -computername SERVER | Where {($_.PrinterStatus -ne "Normal") -and ($_.Name -Match "CC2")} | Select Name,PrinterStatus
if ($CurrentStatus)
if (Compare-Object $CurrentStatus $PreviousStatus -property Name,PrinterStatus)
# Establish Connection to SMTP server
$a = "<style>"
$a = $a + "TABLE{border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;border-collapse: collapse;}"
$a = $a + "TH{border-width: 1px;padding: 0px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"
$a = $a + "TD{border-width: 1px;padding: 0px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"
$a = $a + "</style>"
$filedate = get-date
$smtpserver = “smtp.gmail.com”
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer )
$smtp.EnableSsl = $True
$smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(“[email protected]”, “password”); # Put username without the @GMAIL.com or – @gmail.com
$msg.IsBodyHtml = $True
$msg.From = “[email protected]”
$msg.To.Add(”[email protected]”)
$msg.To.Add(”[email protected]”)
$msg.To.Add(”[email protected]”)
$msg.To.Add(”[email protected]”)
$msg.To.Add("[email protected]")
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I hope it's Kappy reading this. My HP Laserjet successfully installed but can't create a print queue...

Hello Kappy - Thank you for persevering with my printer issues. Firstly, I use Firefox, recently updated & as yet have not discovered how to monitor downloads. The software for HP Laserjet 2200 was eventually automaticallly, and therefore correctly, installed.The Add Printer Pane accessed via the + button in the Printer & Scanner window is blank - the Name & Location and Print Using & Add areas are all grayed out, therefore I can't locate the printer driver even though it is in the Printer folder. I messed around with HP Direct Protocol & Line Daemon functions, entering my IP address, just to see if I could locate the printer driver - I could. However, I get a pop-up window which says 'Unable to verify the printer on your network' but it gives me the option of going ahead anyway, which I did. I was able to create a print queue, able to give a print command, the printer window opens, but the printer appears as 'busy', but of course it's not printing. To look at the issue from another perspective: previously I was running 10.5.8 on my old Power Mac G5 and a week before I shifted over the iMac I paused the printer but when tried to resume printing I got a pop-up message saying IPadmin > enter administrator name + password. Which of course I couldn't do - I discovered this was a bug afflicting10.5 & 10.6 operating systems; the only way I could get around it was by re-creating myself as a new administrator, which I did, and got the printer going again. So, if I have a "Network" printer perhaps there's another route to get the driver recognized... What do you think?
Alex Carr

Morning Alexander Carr,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Use this article to troubleshoot printer issues in OS X.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3147
Best of luck,
Mario

Printing w/Leopard & AD-based Windows Print Queues:

For those interested, I have written an overview of printing in Leopard 10.5.0 to Windows print servers (published queues Active Directory). Your mileage may vary. This document contains the good the bad and the ugly.
Objective:
Get Leopard based Macs to print to AD published SMB print queues hosted on Windows 2003 print servers. Sounds easy, huh?
Overview:
Print Servers:
Windows 2003 print servers.
Printers:
All the printers in my test were all new HP network b/w printers or network MFP b/w printers. All of them were less than 2 years old. None of them were consumer-grade home USB printers.
Mac Clients:
My test clients were Intel MacBook Pros and Intel iMacs running 10.5.0 Leopard. All of them had user AD accounts and all Macs were bound to AD using Directory Utility (or dsconfigad)
The AD clients have a unique naming convention at my company. In my environment we use the initials of the person for their login name (SAM). Example:
Real “human” Name: “Stephen Paul Jobs”
Long Active Directory Name: “Steve Jobs”
Short Active Directory Name: “spj”
“Legacy” NT Names: “domain\spj”
Full domain name (used for email etc): “[email protected]”
(you get the idea...)
Note: My Mac clients are not in an Open Directory domain. No “Magic Triangle” in this environment. Pure AD for the sake of this example. I am not managing the Mac clients via MCX in this scenario.
Print Protocols:
All the print queues hosted on the print servers were standard SMB/CIFS print queues. The syntax (UNC) looks like this:
smb://print_server.domain/queue
(This syntax is invisible to most users printing to AD-published printers (or any network based printer really) . Most users will have no idea what protocols are being used.)
Procedures:
Part 1: Set up a new printer from an existing AD-published print queue:
From the Apple menu select “System Preferences...” (or launch it from /Applications). The Printer Setup Utility app no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it fro various reasons.
Click on the Printer & Fax pane.
Click the “+” button on the left. This will launch the Apple Printer Browser (called “AddPrinter”, and lives in /System/Library/CoreServices), which looks similar to the previous browser in Tiger. The Printer Browser by default will usually show network printers vai Directory Services (AD/OD etc) as well as Bonjour printers and Mac OS X based shared printers – if they are shared via IPP and LPR under certain circumstances).
Select the desired AD-published print queue you want to print to by highlighting it in the browser list and clicking the “Add” button. (Note: Print queues published via Active Directory will show up as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct.)
Before the queue will be added, you will be prompted to authenticate as a local administrator. If you are not an admin you are screwed. Enter your name and password.
Once the print queue is added, it will show up on your Mac in several ways (barring any bugs – see below). Here are the ways to tell if you have added the print queue successfully:
A The new print queue will now be displayed in the Print & Fax system pref pane (but not always – see below).
B You will see a printer proxy application in ~/Library/Printers/ which corresponds to your new print queue. This is the print monitor app that will show up in your Dock when you print to the queue.
C You can see the new print queue via the CUPS admin page at http://localhost:631/printers.
D You can see your new print queue from the Terminal by typing this command: “lpstat –v” (type “man lpstat” for more info on the lpstat and related commands)
E You can also see your printers by launching an print-enabled application such as TextEdit or Safari and printing a page. You will be presented with Leopard’s new print dialog box (which now includes a print preview pane). From the “Printer” drop-down menu you can see all of your printers. You can add a printer from here too (which takes you to the steps listed above)
(of course, most end users will only use option A listed above. The other options are more abstract and complicated)
Now that the AD print queue has been setup on your Mac, you can print to it (maybe).
Part 2: Printing to an AD-published print queue:
Open a document you want to print.
Choose “Page Setup...” from the File menu if you need to configure the job. (Optional)
Choose “Print” from the File menu.
From the Print dialog box, choose the desired print queue from the Printer menu
Click the Print button.
You will need to authenticate with a valid Active Directory username and password. You don’t have to have administrator credentials, but you have to verify that you are a domain member. In my environment, my Windows print server doesn't require authentication, but for some reason Leopard or CUPS makes you authenticate. (See below). Not only is this a major PIA, but the authentication dialog box itself is formatted to include the wrong credentials format for authentication in the first place.
Volia! Done. Easy huh? Not really. Read on for the ugly stuff.
My Complaints and Caveats:
OK, so here’s where I vent, complain and scratch my head. Join in on the fun.
Sometimes shared print queues don’t show up in the Print & Fax system preference pane after they have been added. I have no idea why. The local CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631) on my Mac test clients can see the connected queues, and the queues show up in ~/Library/Printers. The “lpstat –v” command shows the connect queues too. But for some reason, sometimes network print queues that I have previously setup (and use regularly) don’t show up in the Leopard Print & Fax preference pane. Local USB printers always show up fine for me.
2. When challenged to authenticate a print job to a Windows print server (AD), the Mac’s authentication dialog box pre-populates the AD user’s name in the “Name” field incorrectly. Example:
A user named “Joe Is Cool” (short name “JIC”) prints a job to the print server. The print auth dialog box challenges him for a name and password. It is pre-populated already with the name of “Cool, Joe”. When a valid AD password is entered, the job is rejected (it fails authentication and gets put on hold – which is hard to see this unless you explicitly look at the Printer.app proxy tool in the Dock). However, if the user replaces “Cool, Joe” with his official AD short name of “JIC” and then enters his AD password, the print job is accepted and printed. I wish Apple didn’t try and pre-populate the dialog box! Can this be avoided or prevented?
In my environment, my Windows print server doesn't even require authentication, but for some reason Leopard or CUPS makes you authenticate. I’m working with my Windows administrators to figure this out. It will only accept user names with the short name format. It will not accept long (full) names or NT legacy names.
3) The Printer Setup Utility app, which used to live in /Applications/Utilities, no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it for various reasons. Mainly security and simplicity. I wish it was still available, but the system pref pane works fine (well, usually)
4) Active Directory-based print queues will show up in the OS X Printer Browser as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct. Why can’t OS X tell the difference between OD queues and AD queues and label them as such?
5) Leopard has locked down the ability to add network printers. You now must be a local administrator in 10.5 or later. I understand the importance of this security measure in certain environments, but why can’t there be an option in the Security preference pane to “Allow non-admins to add printers”? This would make me very happy.
6) Setting the default printer and resetting the CUPS system now require you to right-click in the left side of the Print & Fax pane. There no longer is a button or menu option to do this.
7) Sometimes after a job has printed the printer proxy app (from ~/Library/Printers) stays in the Dock and won’t go away.
Conclusion
Please chime in on your experiences, bugs, opinions and comments.
Message was edited by: Daniel Stranathan

I have noticed several of the changes in our system when printing to an AD printer from a Leopard client. I have one issue that is pretty odd and I'm not sure what is going on. When printing an Excel worksheet, I get prompted for AD credentials. After submitting the job, the print queue says "Waiting for Authentication", I have to press the Resume button and then the authentication dialog pops up. I successfully authenticate (My auth dialog is populated correctly and the remember to keychain option is selected) and the job prints fine. If I print the same document again (without closing the worksheet or Excel), or any other worksheet, I still have to reauth. I can print just fine to the same printer from Textwriter and I do not need to authenticate. Weird...

Printer Queue Settings Mysteriously Reverting Back to Default Settings on 2008 R2 print servers

Printer Queue Settings Mysteriously Reverting Back to Default Settings on 2008 R2 print servers
We have 4 Windows Server 2008 R2 print servers, all of which has the same printer queues installed on them that are utilized by a 3rd party printing program that does a round-robin load balancing scheme.
All printers are a combination of HP and Xerox all running some variation of the HP UPD and the Xerox UPD. Some use the PCL 5 and some use the PCL 6 version determined by age of printer and need.
There are typically two printer queues for each physical printer.
Example:
LOCATION_ROOM
LOCATION_ROOM_TRAY2
The regular queue is ok being left with default setting,
The _TRAY2 queues are set to print to "labels" or "pre-printed" paper type or a specific tray.
From time to time, these _TRAY2 queues will revert back to a factory default state and lose the setting to print to a specific paper type or tray. Sometimes it happens to the _TRAY2 queue on all 4 servers, sometimes just 1 server, etc. No rhyme
or reason.
Disabled Bi-directional options on both the HP and Xerox UPDs per another article on the internet that said bi-directional could cause the printer to send back settings to the driver and cause this issue. Even with this option off, we continue to see
printer _TRAY2 queue settings revert back to factory default and lose their specific paper and tray settings. We have ruled out the possibility that users or other technicians are the ones making these changes so we suspect it is some interaction between
the servers, printer drivers and printers themselves causing the issue.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I'd start by using one of the print drivers included in Windows for a few of the printers and confirm it's the universal driver that is causing the issue.
HP installs some other processes and services on the machine which communicate with the HP devices.
PML and something else. You might want to shut those down and see if these processes are the ones modifying the settings.
Run process monitor to truly identify which processes is causing the modifications.
Alan Morris formerly with Windows Printing Team

Server Admin not showing jobs in print queue

Hi All,
I'm not sure if others are having this problem or if it's just me. I am running Mac Server OS X 10.6.7 When I go to Server Admin and select "Print" and then "Job Status", I get a list of all the server's print queues. In the pane below the list of queues, there is a section that says "Jobs on Queue:" which then allows me to select any specific print queue. The problem is, no matter what queue I select, I am never able to see any of the print jobs going through the queue. I have sent multiple jobs to different printers on the server, all while watching the "Jobs on Queue" window for the appropriate printer. In every test, I have never seen ANY print job show up in that window, even though all the print jobs print out fine. I have even tried pausing a printer to let jobs queue up, and still nothing shows up in that window.
I have also tried the same tests while viewing the prints queues from the "Print & Fax" System Preferences pannel directly on the server. Still no luck. Everything prints out fine, but I am unable to ever see any print job hitting the queue.
The reason I even noticed this problem is because a user accidentally printed a 500 page document by mistake. The user called me to stop the job, but I was unable to see anything in the queue to kill. I tried deleting the job directly from the printer, but this just caused the printer to lock up. I would try powering off the printer and restarting it, but as soon as it powered back on, the print job would restart. I even tried restarting the server, but as soon as the server came back online, the print job started again. Finally, after hunting on the web, I tried logging into CUPS via http://localhost:631 and was able to see the print job listed there and finally delete it.
Is there any way to monitor print jobs on the server in real time? I found this previous archived thread describing what appears to the same problems using Mac Server OS X10.5.8, but there was never any solution listed before the thread was archived.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2152737

Is there anyone using printing services on a Mac server at all that could comment on whether or not you see the print jobs listed in the queue when printing?

Print queue doesn't open (and preference button doesn't work either)

Okay, this has been my only problem since upgrading to Leopard and it's kind of annoying. For some reason I have not been able to get my print queues to ever open up since upgrading. I have three printers currently installed:
• Apple LaserWriter 16/600 (via local network)
• Brother MFC-3220C (USB)
• Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo (USB)
After printing I have yet to see the print queue come up for any of the printers. Also, if I go in to the System Preferences and click on the "Open Print Queue" button nothing happens whatsoever--no message, no window, nothing. I have tried resetting the print system and that has also had no effect on the problem. I have tried this on all of my printers and it just does not work correctly. I have also tried deleting the printers and re-adding them as well as fixing permissions, neither of which solved the problem.
If anyone has any insight in to why this is happening or what I can do to fix the problem, please let me know, I would like to be able to use the print queues again. Thank you!

John Blanchard1 wrote:
The printer preferences are stores in <home>/Library/Preferences, and they are the com.apple.print files. You could throw those away and see if things improve. Also, does this happen with all the printers? If so, and your printers are easy to re-add, you could go to <home>/Library/Printers and delete the printers there and then re-add them. When going to <home>/Library/Printers, you could see if double-clicking on the printers there launches the proxy.
Thanks for the information, however I finally found out what the problem was. After looking at it deeper, it appears that I had some weird owners & groups for a bunch of my user files which must have been causing the problems. Even though it was permissions related, Repair Permissions in Disk Utility wasn't catching the bad permissions or solving the issue, I had to hit all of my folders and files with chown and chmod in terminal to force change the owners and permissions. After doing all of that, I FINALLY have working print monitors...YES! So, in other words, if anyone else experiences this problem (I'm not sure why they would) please feel free to ask me how I finally solved it for a more in depth explanation.

Stuck at restoring print queues while migrating from 2003 X86 to 2008 R2

i am trying to migrate from 2003 to 2008 R2 but i am stuck where it says restoring print queues and is tuckat 84% there is no error and it has not completed from pas 3 hrs now.. i have 6 print queues on it and is it normal that this willtake such long for
these 7 queues

we are getting the following error.
Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-PrintBRM Date: 1/23/2014 5:27:15 PM Event ID: 30 Task Category: (5) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: MARPRINTPC01N1.bsci.bossci.com Description: The language monitors in the backup file
are for a different processor architecture than the destination computer. Printbrm.exe (the Printer Migration Wizard or the command-line tool) will not migrate any language monitors. Source architecture: Windows NT x86. Destination architecture: Windows x64.
Event Xml: <event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><system></system><provider EventSourceName="PrintBrm" Guid="{CF3F502E-B40D-4071-996F-00981EDF938E}" Name="Microsoft-Windows-PrintBRM"></provider><eventid Qualifiers="49154"></eventid>30</eventid><//eventid>
<version></version>0</version><//version> <level></level>2</level><//level> <task></task>5</task><//task> <opcode></opcode>0</opcode><//opcode> <keywords></keywords>0x80000000000000</keywords><//keywords> <timecreated SystemTime="2014-01-23T22:27:15.000000000Z"></timecreated><eventrecordid></eventrecordid>4174</eventrecordid><//eventrecordid>
<correlation></correlation><execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0"></execution><channel></channel>Application</channel><//channel> <computer></computer>MARPRINTPC01N1.bsci.bossci.com</computer><//computer> <security></security></system><//system><eventdata></eventdata><data
Name="param1"></data>Windows NT x86</data><//data> <data Name="param2"></data>Windows x64</data><//data> </eventdata><//eventdata></event>

Print queue stalling when spooling many documents

Hello all, need help with a peculiar issue.
We have just built a brand-new Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86 virtual server in VMWare. This server is also installed with the Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications components and a program called PrintMonitor that appears to be a bridge between a UNIX-based
application on UNIX server submitting print jobs to the Server 2003 R2 server.
The problem is that whether going through PrintMonitor or just into the standard Windows printing subsystem, the print queue for any of the 3 printers installed on the server will stall when a large number of documents are submitted. For example, if
15 small Notepad documents are printed to a printer, they will all queue, but after 11 print (this number appears to be consistent and repeatable), it can take anywhere from 45 seconds to 2 minutes for the rest to print.
I've already done a lot of searching on this issue and everything I read says that printing problems are most likely due to print drivers. Of the three printers, one is an HP 4000 series LaserJet and the other 2 are large Kyocera TASKalfa 8001i's.
The problem has manifested on all three printers, but so far we've only tried to remedy the problem on the HP. We've tried 4 alternate drivers and the problem persists. The HP PCL5 and PS drivers completely failed to work because it didn't
have correct paper parameters. The PCL6 driver behaved the same as the driver included in Windows. We've tried submitting through PrintMonitor and directly into Windows, but the problem persists there as well, which would seem to eliminate PrintMonitor
as the source of the problem.
Does anyone else have any suggestions on what we can try?

This is a very old issue due to the RFC and design of the lpr protocol. Can you not use Standard TCP/IP ports to the print devices rather than LPR ports?
Here's a doc comparing limitations in LPR and reasons to move to Standard TCP/IP Port monitor.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc728404(v=WS.10).aspx
All the print devices you listed support Standard TCP/IP Ports.
If you really have to stick to LPR Port due to your PrintMonitor application, respond back or just search for: 721 lpr alan morris.
Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

Cannot print or show printer queue

Hi,
I have got quite a big problem with my printer application. I am only using network printers over smb here:
Basically if I print something nothing happens. I notice a program to appear in the Dock and immediately disappear again. I can not say if this is the printer queue because it happens too fast. As a result nothings gets printed at all.
When I try to open the printer queue program from the system settings in order to have a look what might be wrong the same thing happens: The program opens and closes at once in the Dock. Else nothing.
In the activity monitor the process is just not there, not even if I keep it open trying to print or opening the printer queue. Probably crashes instantly.
Restarting the computer does not help. I've got the latest software updates but I cannot nail the problem down to a specific version because the last time I printed is like 3 months ago. (paperless and stuff like that ;-))
So that is my problem. If you have any hint I'd be very pleased.
Thanks
Stefan

Hi there.
One suggestion would be to pause the print queue. Then when you try to print you can see if the print job is being created and held in the queue.
If the print job fails to be created then you know that the application is not creating the job correctly. Does this occur with all applications?
If the print job is appearing in the held queue but errors when you resume the print queue then it would suggest something is wrong with the printing system. You could try removing the network queue and adding it again. If this does not help then I suggest a reset of the printing system - process described below. The reset will remove all of your printer queues in Print & Fax but not remove your printer drivers, so you will only need to add your printer queues again.
*How to Reset the Printing System*
1. Open System Preferences > Print & Fax
2. Move your mouse over the Printers list
3. Hold down the Control button and click the mouse
4. Click the "Reset printing system ..." popup
5. Restart your Mac

Does Netware still support print queues?

Ok, I'll try again. A prior version of Netware had some sort of DOS application
that it used to manage queues. My IT folks no longer want to support that
Netware DOS application. I only know what they tell me, which is generally
nothing.
They want to pull the plug on the Netware DOS application that makes queues
available. If they do that an application I developed breaks. They are
offering no help at all in resolving the issue other than saying there are
Novell support newsgroups....
My belief is that Novell wouldn't totally quit support of queues and there must
be something in Netware 6.5 that provides the same functionality. That's what
I'm trying to track down... Can you help?!
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:24:54 GMT, "Peter Kuo"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>So can you not convert it into a Windows application that uses queues? <g>

Off topic but, is this information accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land
If so, you live in a very amazing place!
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:12:15 GMT, Anders Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>Jim Philippi,
>> My belief is that Novell wouldn't totally quit support of queues and there must
>> be something in Netware 6.5 that provides the same functionality. That's what
>> I'm trying to track down... Can you help?!
>>
>Yes. NetWare 6.5 supports print queues. You can keep using queue-based printing
>just as it was in 4.x if you like.
>
>Most sites would like to use NDPS/iPrint however, since it provides superior
>management. Both NDPS and iPrint support legacy queues. Ie they can service jobs
>that you deposit in a queue if you like.
>
>Perhaps if you told use a little bit more what you want to do, then we could help
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How to create HP LaserJet 2420 printer queue on Solaris 10

Hi Solaris Gurus,
I am having difficulty creating a printer queue for HP LaserJet 2420 on Solaris 10 (11/9) Sparc (Sun Fire T5220) server. A popular method used is with hppi (HP Jet Direct) tool but it does not have the exact printer driver and alternative printer drivers (e.g. HP LaserJet 4 / 4M, HP LaserJet 2000 series) resulted in only part of the text occupying the wrong side of an A5 page.
An alternative approach that has worked in the past for simple default paper tray 2 (single paper tray), with tray 1 reserved for manual feed. This method involves creating a working printer queue on a Windows workstation (XP) / server (2000) with the correct driver and having configured to support Unix printing to receive LPR request from Unix systems in general. A remote printer queue would then be defined on Solaris 10 system which points to the Windows system. However, the printing jobs kept going to tray 1 (top manual feed) even though the Windows printer queue was configured to go to tray 3 (bottom tray).
The earlier method would be simplest but needs the right driver (PDD) but I don’t know where to find it. The latter approach is also not working despite having got the right driver on Windows. A test page on the target Windows printer queue would print to tray 3 (bottom tray) of the printer correctly.
Printmgr does not work well with HP printers from experience. It is good for serial and local printers.
Your advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Crystal

Hi Giogio, and welcome to the HP Forums.
I am sorry to be the bearer of this news, but do the age of the printer, it is not supported by Mac OS X 10.9. I am including a list below of the supported printers from Apple:
OS X: Printer and scanner software available for download.
For more information, I would recommend contacting the Apple Support Communities.
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