Adding Printers in UNIX/Linux
PROS A protocol developed at Axis. Comes in two versions; named pipe (PROS A) and filter (PROS B).
PROS A Advantages
The AXIS 540+/AXIS 560 appears as a device to the system. This makes all filter and model options available. It provides accounting and status logging. Supports
PROS A | A ‘C’ compiler is required to build the PROS A drivers. |
Limitations |
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| You can download a ‘C’ compiler from http://www.gnu.org/ |
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PROS B | It provides accounting and status logging. Supports |
Advantages | printer information read back can be viewed in a log file. |
PROS B | A ‘C’ compiler is required to build the PROS B drivers and in the case of BSD, it |
Limitations | may conflict with other input or output filters. It does not allow both input and |
| output filters. Interface programs can not be used in System V. |
Reverse Telnet | Often used for printing via a terminal server printer port. Only recommended if |
| you already have a Reverse Telnet driver installed. |
Advantages: | Easy to set up with previously installed Reverse Telnet drivers. |
Limitations: | No status logging. Drivers are not supplied with the print server. Existing drivers |
| may be slow. |
Other UNIX/Linux | Most UNIX/Linux systems resemble either BSD or System V and so with some |
Systems | ingenuity, a solution can also be devised for other variants. |
| If the system has BSD socket type networking support, then prosbsd (in the |
| bsd directory of the AXIS 540+/AXIS 560) can be used as a starting point. It |
| receives print data from stdin, and writes a log file to stderr. Nothing is |
| written to stdout. |
| Alternatively, FTP may be used. It is a good idea to use bsd/ftp_bsd or |
| sysv/ftp_sysv as a starting point. |
IBM MVS Systems | A sample JCL script, jclex, is available in the mvs directory of the print server. |
| It gives an example of how to print a file from an MVS mainframe to an AXIS |
| 540+/AXIS 560 using FTP. |
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