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

[Michael Sweet]

Jack,

"man lpoptions"

lpoptions -p <queue-name> -o "hppapersource=tray3"


> On May 1, 2015, at 1:49 AM, Jack Bush <netbeansfan at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael & Me,
> How to create the CUPS Options file under ~HOME/.cups? My options for hppapersource is Automatic and would like to set it to Tray3. 
> 
>     HPPaperSource/Paper Source: *AutomaticallySelect Tray1 Tray2 Tray3 Tray4 Tray5 Tray6 Tray1_Man EnvelopeFeeder
> Also wondering whether the following option syntax is correct:
>     lp -d <queue-name> -o "hppapersource=tray3" report.pdf    lp -d <queue-name> -o "hppapersource=lower" report.pdf
> Many thanks to you both again,
> Jack
> 
> 
>     On Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 20:57, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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