Re: jetdirect (more questions)

["Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC" <ted cypress com>]

Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> David E. Lupo wrote:
> >
> > I have one working on our network.  I've seen the suggestion
> > that the queue name be "raw," but when I set ours up, before
> > I saw that, I used "lp" and it worked.
> 
> The boxes are fairly intelligent, and will route any prints
> for unknown queues to the main queue usually.
> 
> > What I'd still like to learn, though, is how to control the
> > duplexer and how to tell the printer to switch out of
> > economode to regular density.
> >
> > Anyone had any experience with either of these features?
> 
> A great deal, but only on the PJL/PCL level.
> 
> As for a quick way of doing this with options, I'm not too sure.
> Long, long ago, I wrote a lousy little wrapper for lpr that
> would masage the PCL toward this end.  Surely, there is
> something out there that takes care of this by now, isn't there?
> 

Ghostscript will do most of this I think. Send the data as postscript.
This is part of the RH print filters. It also uses mpage to control
1,2,4, and 8 up printing. Look at the ghostscript docs/source for
more on the PCL driver features and limits.

	-Thomas