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System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

Adjusting Printer Port Characteristics

The printer port characteristics set by the LP print service must be compatible with the printer communication settings. If the default printer port settings provided by the LP print service do not work with a printer, refer to the printer manual from the manufacturer to determine what settings the printer requires from the LP print service. Use the stty command to set and display printer communication settings.

The following table shows the default stty settings that are used by the LP print service.

Table 7–1 Default stty Settings Used by the LP Print Service

Option 

Description 

-9600

Sets baud to 9600 

-cs8

Sets 8-bit bytes 

-cstopb

Sends one stop bit per byte 

-parity

Does not generate parity 

-ixon

Enables XON/XOFF (also known as START/STOP or DC1/DC3) 

-opost

Does “output post-processing” using all the settings that follow in this table 

-olcuc

Do not map lowercase to uppercase 

-onlcr

Changes linefeed to carriage return/linefeed 

-ocrnl

Does not change carriage returns into linefeeds 

-onocr

Outputs carriage returns even at column 0 

-n10

Provides no delay after linefeeds 

-cr0

Provides no delay after carriage returns 

-tab0

Provides no delay after tabs 

-bs0

Provides no delay after backspace characters 

-vt0

Provides no delay after vertical tabs 

-ff0

Provides no delay after form feeds 

ProcedureHow to Adjust the Printer Port Characteristics

  1. Log in as superuser, lp, or assume an equivalent role on the print server.

  2. Adjust the printer port characteristics.


    # lpadmin -p printer-name -o "stty=options"
    -p

    Specifies the name of the printer for which you are adjusting the port characteristics.

    -o “stty=options”

    Sets the port characteristic (stty option) specified by options. You can change more than one stty option setting with this command. Enclose each option in single quotation marks, and use a space to separate the options. For a complete list of options, see thestty(1) man page. Table 7–1 shows the default stty settings used by the LP print service.

  3. Verify that the printer port characteristics have been changed.


    # lpstat -p printer-name -l
Example 7–1 Adjusting the Printer Port Characteristics

This example shows how to set the port characteristics for the printer luna. The parenb option enables parity checking/generation. The parodd option sets odd parity generation. The cs7 option sets the character size to 7 bits.


# lpadmin -p luna -o "stty='parenb parodd cs7'"
Example 7–2 Setting the Terminal Baud Rate

This example shows how to set the terminal baud rate to 19200 for the printer venus. 


# lpadmin -p venus -o "stty=19200"