[cups] How to find & install HP LaserJet 600 M601 PPD on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 to print postscript

[Michael Sweet]

Or:

    lpoptions -p <queue_name> -l

to list all of the options for the printer.


> On Apr 28, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Helge Blischke <HelgeBlischke at web.de> wrote:
> 
> Jack,
> 
> look into the printer’s PPD for the tray options to see the somewhat
> unusual keywords. So try something like
> lp -d <queue_name> -o lamndscape -o "hppapersource tray3“ report.pdf
> etc.
> 
> Helge
> 
>> Am 28.04.2015 um 10:39 schrieb Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au>:
>> 
>> Hi Helge,
>> I managed to install HP LaserJet 600 M601 CUPS printer queue (A5) in Red Hat Enterprise 6 server. However, there is one critical "default tray" is no longer available in the last step of adding printer, compared to other existing CUPS driver such as HP LaserJet 4200. As a result, I am assuming that the following command to address different tray would work the same as in Solaris:
>> lp -d <queue_name> -o landscape -o tray3 report.pdf
>> lp -d <queue_name> -o landscape -o lower report.pdf
>> 
>> However, only a blank page was printed out to manual tray 1 on A4 paper even though I wanted to print to A5 Landscape paper on tray 3 or lower.
>> Please advice what is the correct Red Hat lp syntax to address individual tray including orientation. The report.pdf has the correct A5 dimension (5.82 x 8.26 inch).
>> I have attached this report.pdf and would appreciate if you could explain why a blank page is been printed out. It had been generated by JetPCL from report.pcl.
>> 
>> Many thanks again,
>> Jack
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    On Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 18:21, Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Helge,
>> I managed to successfully 
>> 
>>     On Saturday, 25 April 2015, 23:49, Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>      On Saturday, 25 April 2015, 23:47, Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Helge,
>> Thank you for giving a hand on an issue still outstanding for many days now. I have found another more useful information from https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/241029 and is in the process of testing this out, once the RedHat administrator installs hplip.
>> I will let you know of the outcome.
>> Jack 
>> 
>> 
>>    On Thursday, 23 April 2015, 22:47, Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>      On Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 19:14, Helge Blischke <helgeblischke at web.de> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> You should install the „hplip“ package (I suppose there is an installable package from RedHat).
>> That contains 
>> –    a cups filter named „hpps“ that implements additional features like job saving and secure printing,
>> –    a PPD for use this printer as a PostScript printer.
>> As far as I con see, the only possibility for hplip to modify cups.conf is to use the utility to set the log level to debug
>> and back again, which is better done by using the cups utility cupsctl.
>> 
>> Hope this helps
>> 
>> Helge
>> 
>>> Am 21.04.2015 um 09:50 schrieb Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au>:
>>> 
>>> Dear RedHat Administrator,
>>> 
>>> Finding and installing HP LaserJet 600 M601 driver (PPD), into CUPS on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 server have not been successful. I need to setup a CUPS 
>>> HP JetDirect postscript printer to print PDF report for this model of printer.
>>> 
>>> A colleage has recommended to use Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlmono (en) which only works for PCL output instead of PDF. Past attempt to download 
>>> and install PPD file has resulted in overwriting or corrupting /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
>>> 
>>> Any assistance would be much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> 
>>> Jack
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair