FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 2001-05-07
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NAME

foomatic-getpjloptions - <put a short description here>

SYNOPSIS

foomatic-getpjloptions device

foomatic-getpjloptions hostname port

DESCRIPTION

foomatic-getpjloptions Sends a set of PJL commands and reads back the PJL options and status from a printer over a network connection or device bidirectional interface such as parallel, USB, serial. printers to standard output. The output can be piped into foomatic-addpjloptions to add options to the database.

Options

device: The interface to which a local printer is connected, e.g. /dev/lp0, /dev/usb/lp0, /dev/tty00, etc. For a parallel port, you must have bidirectional support enabled at the BIOS level and the parallel port driver must support the bidirectional mode. Check your parallel port BIOS settings for EPP/bi-directional mode.
hostname: Host name or IP address of a network printer (HP JetDirect, DLINK, etc.).
port: Port on which your network printer listens for socket (Appsocket) connections. Most common ports are 9100 (JetDirect), 10000 (DLINK). Usually you can configure the port via a configuration interface.

EXIT STATUS

foomatic-getpjloptions returns ???

AUTHOR

Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary. Modified by Patrick Powell <papowell at lprng.com> to provide betters support for network printers, error messages, and remove CR and FF from output.

WARNINGS

Uni-directional protocols as remote LPD are not supported as no status is returned. Some network print servers which attach to a printer parallel port do not support bidirectional mode.