[34336] in Hotline Meeting
Re: 600 vs 300 dpi printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian W. Melanson)
Tue Aug 13 10:15:38 1996
From: Brian W. Melanson <bwmelans@MIT.EDU>
To: socolofs@MIT.EDU
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 10:15:13 EDT
Hi Scott,
>>We've been printing on a printer that is hanging off one of our private
>>Athenized DEC5000 stations. We are planning on upgrading that printer
>>from a 300 dpi printer to a 600 dpi printer. I called HP to find out
>>what I would need to do, and they said I only had to adjust the print cap
>>to recognize the capability of the new printer. How would I do that?
I sorry it took so long to reply to you. The printer
does the dpi on its own. There is no setting for
dpi in the /etc/printcap. You should check to see if
there is a setting on the printer which needs to be enabled
for 600 dpi.
>>Also, this printer currently must be called by different names
>>(oldham or kanga) depending on what machine you are sitting at
>>in our lab. What do I need to check, and or adjust, to give the
>>printer a single name?
Apparently you have a hesiod pointer the print spool name "oldham"
but not "kanga". What this means is you have a local "/etc/printcap"
which has the name "kanga" in it. You need to edit the printcap file
where you use "kanga" as the spool name and change it to "oldham".
If you have any other questions concerning printing please
send e-mail to "op". Thanks.
Brian Melanson
Athena Server Operations
