Wayne Rasmussen

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

ML Starkey

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.

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....