HP J7949E 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 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

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.

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