in reply to NET::Printer Module not printing to local printer

Please note that this module only talks to print servers that speak BSD. It will not talk to printers using SMB, SysV, or IPP unless they are set up as BSD printers. CUPS users will need to set up cups-lpd to provide legacy access.
Are these conditions satisfied? Does it work when you use lp to send a file manually aaand is lp installed on the webserver?


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Re^2: NET::Printer Module not printing to local printer
by akwe-xavante (Acolyte) on May 02, 2019 at 08:35 UTC

    Thank you holli for your reply

    running the command lpstat -a returns the following result

    lpstat -a HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n accepting requests since Wed 10 Apr 2019 22:05:32 BST

    running the command lp -d HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n "Test Sheet.txt" request id is HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n-8 (1 file(s))

    Prints out the txt file OK, printing a PDF document in the same way works too.

    Am i a module missing and or do i need to add info the the script so that the print command knows where to find the printer?

    Do i need to install, setup and or configure something elsewhere?

    Changing the $PrinterName = " HP Network Printer" to $PrinterName = "HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n" doesn't fix the problem

    is lp installed on the webserver? Tried googling this one and got nowhere, can i ask what's meant by this with a little more info so i can explore further

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      running the command lp -d HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n "Test Sheet.txt" request id is HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n-8 (1 file(s))
      On which machine did you run that? I'm thinking, if the module uses lp and lp is not installed on the webserver (and why should it, it's a webserver) that could be why it doesn't work. And so if you ran that command from your dev machine it doesn't tell us much.


      holli

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        Sorry i was specifically thinking that you were sugesting that the the webserver apache required configuring in some way. On this linux box there is more than one server running, ftpd, apache, smb and others.

        The lp command was issued on the same limux box that the webserver is on

        all other boxes on the network are running Win7

        The code below inserted into the perl script works: system("lp -d HP_Color_LaserJet_CP2025n /path/to/filename.pdf");

        sucessfully and prints the test file, but is creates the problem that i don't get returned the perl script afterwards, not explored why yet, i'll look into this a later on today.

        I may have to abandom the NET::Printer module and explore exporting the print process to a shell command instead. It works, just need a little more thought and work to get back to the perl script without crashing it

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