Wayne Rasmussen

ML Starkey wrote:

> Wayne Rasmussen wrote:
> > We normally use HP printers on all of our servers until a customer
> > purchased printers from different manufacturers (Sharp/canon). The
> > print queue appears to be getting hung from time to time due to the
> > power save mode on the printer, if you believe lpstat. Turning off the
> > power save mode fixes the symptom, however I am looking for a lpadmin
> > setting that might allow this to work. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wayne
> >
>
> There would be no lpadmin, etc setting unless you have setup the print
> queue using Sharp/Canon software, if such a thing even exists.
>
> If you have setup the printq with the included-with-Solaris netstandard
> interface file, you could try to lengthen the timeout. From the lpadmin
> man page:
>
> "The value of option timeout sets the seed value for
> backoff time when the printer is busy. The default
> value for the timeout option is 10 seconds."
>
> so try lpadmin -p printqname -o timeout=20
>
> and see if that helps.
>
> But if the printer is looking for some special signal to "wakeup: from
> powersave and not just taking more than 10 seconds to do so, you will
> definately have to look into sharp/canon software.

This is what I think is going on. I was hoping someone had used these type of
printer before. Oh well....