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Step 2. Setting Up Print Queues
You must set up a print queue for each printer or printer personality
(PCL or PostScript) you use on your system. Also, different queues
are required for formatted and unformatted files. The queue names
text and raw in the following examples (see rp tag) have special
meanings.
The line printer daemon on the HP Jetdirect print server treats
data in the text queue as unformatted text or ASCII, and adds a
carriage return to each line before sending it to the printer. (Note
that the actual observed behavior is that a PCL line termination
command (value of 2) is issued at the beginning of the job.)
The line printer daemon treats data in the raw queue as formatted
files in PCL, PostScript, or HP-GL/2 languages and sends the data
without change to the printer.
Data in the auto queue will be automatically processed as text or
raw, as appropriate.
For the binps queue, the PostScript interpreter interprets the print
job as binary PostScript data.
For user-defined queue names, the line printer daemon adds
user-defined strings before or after the print data (user-defined
print queues can be set up through Telnet, Chapter 3
, or the
embedded Web server, Chapter 4
).
If the queue name is not one of the above, the HP Jetdirect print
server assumes it to be raw1.
Step 3. Printing a Test File
Print a test file using the LPD commands. For instructions, see the
information provided for your system.
Table 5.2 Supported Queue Names
raw, raw1, raw2, raw3 no processing
text, text1, text2, text3 carriage return added
auto, auto1, auto2, auto3 automatic
binps, binps1, binps2, binps3 binary PostScript
(user-defined) defined by user; optionally including
command strings before and after the print
data
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