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Printer Drivers for UNIX & Linux Systems 2008 www.lexmark.com - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 2
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14 Performing tasks 15 Opening the printer driver...15 Print Drivers Setup...15 Administrative Group...15 Web Browser...15 Paper Size ...15 Desktop Integration...16 Asian Drivers...16 CUPS ...16 Changing an administrative group name...16 Adding or removing a user from the administrative group 17 - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 4
a print queue to print to a different printer 30 Removing a print queue...30 Plugin Manager utility (software updates)...31 Using the Plugin Manager utility ...31 Installing plugins from the printer driver...31 Removing plugins from the printer driver...31 Using the Plugin Manager utility from the - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 5
Normal user or administrator...34 Default settings for the program or queue...34 Related topics...35 Troubleshooting 36 The print queue ...38 The printer driver is unable to find the network printer 39 My printer model is not listed...39 Jobs are not printing...39 Additional problems...40 Editions - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 6
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or no banner page, so users do not need to specify those options. • Printer options support-Users have the ability to access several printer-specific options such as multiple-page printing, print and hold, duplex, or paper size. • Job submission graphical interface-Users can use the command lexlp - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 8
users cannot add or remove print queues. For more information, see "Changing an administrative group name" on page 16. Note: If you are using print clients and print servers on Solaris, install the printer drivers on the print server to access the printer driver management features. Supported - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 9
" on page 13. 3 Download the Lexmark printer driver package (print-drivers-hpux11.11.pkg.gz) from the Lexmark Web site at http://www.lexmark.com/drivers. 4 Save the downloaded printer software package in the /tmp directory, and then uncompress the package file: # /usr/contrib/bin/gunzip /tmp/print - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 10
.lexprint Note: Your specific printer driver may not be included in the standard package. Check the Software and Documentation CD or the Lexmark Web site to determine if there are any software plug-ins available. For more information, see "Plugin Manager utility (software updates)" on page 31. 10 - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 11
/setup.lexprint Note: Your specific printer driver may not be included in the standard package. Check the Software and Documentation CD or the Lexmark Web site to determine if there are any software plug-ins available. For more information, see "Plugin Manager utility (software updates)" on page 31 - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 12
message appears telling you the installation was successful, type q to quit. Note: Your specific printer driver may not be included in the standard package. Check your Software and Documentation CD or the Lexmark Web site to determine if there are any software plugins available. For more information - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 13
message appears telling you the installation was successful, type q to quit. Note: Your specific printer driver may not be included in the standard package. Check your Software and Documentation CD or the Lexmark Web site to determine if there are any software plugins available. For more information - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 14
uninstalling the package. # /opt/lexmark/LEXPrtDrv.unlink Removing remaining directories Package removal utilities usually do not remove directories shared by more than one package. After you remove all of the printer drivers packages, you may need to remove some directories manually. To see if any - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 15
printer driver The printer driver is available from a Windows menu item, or from the command line by typing: # lexprint The program has two modes: User browser. 4 Click Next. Paper Size You can set the default paper size for all print jobs. Note: Changing the default paper size does not affect the - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 16
Integration option allows you to add Print Drivers to, or remove them from, the menu bar. 1 Click File Setup. 2 Click Desktop Integration. 3 Select the menu integration option you want to use. 4 Click Next. Asian Drivers You can enable Asian driver support which allows you to print using the - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 17
HP-UX # /opt/lexmark/setup.lexprint IBM AIX # /usr/lpp/lexprint/setup.lexprint Adding or removing a user from the administrative group Users who are part of the administrative group can open the printer driver with permissions and perform administrative tasks. Users who are not part of this group - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 18
printer is a attached to a network: a Enter the device name and description. b Enter the IP Address/Host Name, or click Search to locate the IP address. If you entered an IP Address : # /usr/lexprint/bin/mkdevice -d name -f device -t type For network devices: # /usr/lexprint/bin/mkdevice -d name -i - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 19
the printer driver, supported printer types and languages can be found by running the following command: # /usr/lexprint/bin/supported_printers Locate the line listed from the supported_printers command that contains the model number of your printer. Example: You want to create a queue for a Lexmark - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 20
is specified as "automatic" for this queue. Specify additional printer options so that paper from the second tray is used and jobs are duplexed against the long edge of the paper. # /usr/lexprint/bin/mkqueue -d mydevice -q myqueue -p 10LT63x -l automatic -o "paper_tray=tray2 duplex=long_edge - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 21
2 Right-click the print queue icon. 3 Select the appropriate Properties menu item. 4 Change the settings. 5 Click OK. How you change the properties determines which print jobs are affected. • If you open the printer driver as a normal user, your changes are saved in your home directory and apply to - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 22
real name of a print queue could be "Bldg_4_Room1," but the alias describes it as "duplex." Users can then use "Bldg_4_Room1" or "duplex" as the print queue name when printing. Note: Printer aliases are supported only on Linux platforms with the LPRng print subsystem enabled. If you want to modify - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 23
column, select the print queues to be removed, and then click . Adding a print queue to My Printers or another printer group You can add a print queue to My Printers or another printer group either by dragging a printer from the main window onto a printer group or by using the Group Manager tool - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 24
remove a print queue from the Selected Print Queue column, select the print queues to be removed, and then click . Removing a printer group To delete a specific properties by typing the following command: # /usr/lexprint/bin/lsqueue_opts -q queue_name 2 Find the name of the property you want to change - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 25
.ps Printing a file 1 Right-click the print queue, and then select Print File from the menu. 2 From the browser dialog, select the file. 3 If you want to change the printing preferences for this job only, click Preferences. Note: Unless your printer supports Direct Image or an ImageQuick card - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 26
paper. 3 Click OK. Note: Not all printers support the multiple-page feature. Check the documentation that came with the printer to determine if the printer supports ). Note: If the printer does not have enough memory to collate a large document, it prints collated pages of part of the document. It - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 27
. 5 Select Auto CR if you want carriage returns when a line feed is encountered. This is commonly used by UNIX users to fix problems with ASCII text printing. 6 Select the orientation for the print job. 7 Click OK. Note: These settings are only supported by the PCL emulation printer language. 27 - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 28
you delete it from the Held Jobs menu. Note: Reserve and Repeat print jobs may be deleted if the printer requires extra memory to process additional held Note: Not all printers support the Print and Hold feature. See the printer documentation to determine if the printer supports this feature. 28 - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 29
the printer. Writing a banner program You can create custom banner pages for your queues by writing a program that takes seven positional arguments and prints the banner page on the standard out (stdout). The seven banner program arguments are: • file • user • host • queue • message • paper • locale - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 30
has queues associated with it. You can also remove a virtual device from the command line using the following command: # /usr/lexprint/bin/rmdevice -d device_name Changing a print queue to print to a different printer 1 Open the printer driver. 2 Right-click the print queue icon. 3 Select Change - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 31
-ins listed, you can download the latest device support from http://downloads.lexmark.com. Installing plugins from the printer driver 1 Click File Software Update. 2 Select Install. 3 Select a plugin from the directory. A confirmation dialog appears. It contains more specific information about the - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 32
Installing plug-ins # /usr/lexprint/bin/plugin_manager -i plugin_file Listing installed plug-ins # /usr/lexprint/bin/plugin_manager -l Removing plug-ins # /usr/lexprint/bin/plugin_manager -r plugin_name 32 - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 33
submission GUI, and how does it work? The command line submission GUI is remove print queues? You probably have normal user permissions. Only administrators have the ability to add or remove queues. Do I need the root password to add or remove a print queue? No, but you must open the printer driver - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 34
the printer driver as an administrator. 2 From the main window, right-click the print queue icon. 3 Clear the Enabled check box. Normal user or user an administrator? The system administrator adds the user to the administrative group. For more information, see "Adding or removing a user - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 35
location and name of the logfile. • The Printer Intervention Information for User and Administrator are the fields where you select how the printer driver communicates important information to the current user (whoever is sending the job when the error state is reached) and Administrator (the person - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 36
Troubleshooting The print queue is empty but my document did not print Make sure you are sending the proper data to the printer. If you send See "The printer driver is unable to find the network printer" on page 39. - Try using the Print utilities to print directly to the printer. Example: - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 37
message appears on the control panel, see "Additional problems" on page 40. - Make sure TCP/IP is activated on the print server. The protocol must be active in order for the print server and Print Drivers to work. You can activate TCP/IP from the printer control panel. For more information, see the - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 38
printer is connected to a network, compare the IP address of the print server to the address stored for the network printer in the name server or /etc/hosts file. If the addresses do not match, edit the /etc/hosts file, or update problem. - Re-enable the queue with the printer drivers. - Remove all - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 39
community name you supplied to the printer driver is the same as the one set in the print server. • PING the print server. - If PING works, turn the printer off, and then PING again to check for duplicate IP addresses. - If PING does not work, check the IP address, netmask, and gateway to make sure - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 40
the symptoms covered in this troubleshooting section to help you diagnose the problem. • Before calling Customer Support, gather the following information: - What version of the printer driver is being used - What operating system and version is being used - What printers are involved - How the - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 41
programs described may be made at any time. For Lexmark technical support, visit support.lexmark.com. For information on supplies and downloads, visit www.lexmark.com. If you don't have access to the Internet, you can contact Lexmark by mail: Lexmark International, Inc. Bldg 004-2/CSC 740 New Circle - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 42
the property of their respective owners. This product includes software developed met: 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright distribution. 3 The end-user documentation included with the redistribution TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 43
conditions are met: 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this not require) that you include in the end-user documentation provided with the redistribution and/or in BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 44
server firmware firmware level gateway hostname internal print server Internet Protocol (IP) IP address LAN LAN segment The state of a print queue when it allows the submission of new print jobs. If a queue is in the accepting state, the user is able to use the lp or lpr command to submit printer - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 45
line program that creates a print queue. A subgroup of printers set aside by a user to simplify printing options. A DNS server that resolves hostnames to addresses. A bit mask that specifies the local network portion of an IP address, letting you logically subdivide a network. The logical location - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 46
IP addresses. ASCII or plain text data that requires no interpretation by the print queue. Raw data can contain coding that is interpreted by the printer. Linux packaging manager, which can be used to install, query, verify, and uninstall software packages. The state of a print queue when the user - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 47
X client X server X Window System XON/XOFF A plain-text password mechanism used to authenticate queries to agents of managed network devices on a weekly basis. In order to prevent others from using your network printer, change the community name for the printer from the standard word "public." This - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 48
38 printable area, defining 27 printer aliases 22 creating 22 displaying 22 printer classes 22, 35 adding 23 creating 23 removing queues 23 printer drivers administrator mode 34 installing 8 opening 15 printing from 25 removing 13 troubleshooting 39 user mode 34 printer group 35 adding print queues - Lexmark Optra S 1650 | Print Drivers for UNIX and LINUX Systems - Page 49
troubleshooting file sent to print queue came out as garbage 38 hostname does not resolve 38 jobs appear in print queue for extended time 36 my printer driver did not print 36 printer driver is unable to find network printer 39 U UNIX using 7 UNIX system requirements 35 user mode 34 V virtual
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