Danny, the network spooler requires the printer support PCL, so you wont be
able to get this printer going with MPE's spooler. However, products such as
Espul or NBSpool should be able to do what you want

Regards

Richard
_________________________________
Richard Bayly
Hewlett-Packard Response Centre, Australia


"Danny A. van Delft" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:3b2efdd0.3662119@news.bart.nl...
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:19:26 +1000, "Richard Bayly"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Bob, the HPTCPJD is an id for network printers. Only HP Printers that
> >support PCL are supported under MPE/iX. However, non-HP printers should
work
> >ok. The other parameters in the sysgen listing will determine if the
printer
>
> I'm attempting the same. In my case it's a barcode label printer with
> no PCL support, attached to a jetdirect box. However, unless I'm doing
> somethring wrong, you cannot convince OUTSPTJ (?) to not include some
> PJL and PCL initialization and termination strings. It will always
> start with <Esc>%-12345X (PJL I believe), followed with some PCL code
> to reset the printer.
>
>
> >is a network printer or not, and if it is it will use the correct
spooler,
> >OUTSPOOL, or OUTSPTJ (for network printers). When it determines it is a
> >network printer it will look in npconfig.pub.sys for the IP address for
the
> >given device number, along with any other settings.
> >
> >The likely problem is that the printer is not talking via a HP Jetdirect
> >card. The spooler will be expecting certain SNMP replies from the card,
and
> >will fail if it doesn't get them. However you may be able to get around
it
> >by specifying:
> >
> >PJL_SUPPORTED=FALSE and
> >SNMP_ENABLED=FALSE
> >
> >in npconfig. So trying adding these entries, and then restart the spooler
on
> >that device.
> >
>
> Done this, doesn't do the whole job.
> Are there perhaps other (undocumented) settings to force "raw" mode,
> i.e. just sending the raw data to the printer?
>
>
> >Regards
> >
> >Richard
> >
> >______________________________________________-
> >Richard Bayly
> >Hewlett-Packard Response Centre, Australia
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Bob Stewart" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> >news:9g07i508oq@enews3.newsguy.com...
> >> I am trying to configure a Brother 1270N on an HP 3000 running MPE/ix
ver.
> >> 5.5 and am having no success. I believe the problem may be the
id=HPTCPJD
> >> line in the sysgen. Since this is not an HP printer I believe the id
needs
> >> to be something else, but don't know what. Any help is appreciated. TIA
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> If you find a solution, short of using a third party package, please
> let us know.
>
> regards,
> Danny A. van Delft   [log in to unmask]

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