HP 300X manual Setting Up Print Queues, Printing a Test File, Supported Queue Names

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.

Table 4.2 Supported Queue Names

raw, raw1, raw2, raw3	no processing
text, text1, text2, text3	carriage return added
auto, auto1, auto2, auto3	automatic

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. 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.

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