foomatic-getpjloptions - <put a short description here>
foomatic-getpjloptions device foomatic-getpjloptions hostname port
FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8) System Manager's Manual FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)
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 bidirec-
tional 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 (App-
socket) connections. Most common ports are 9100 (JetDirect),
10000 (DLINK). Usually you can configure the port via a con-
figuration 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 par-
allel port do not support bidirectional mode.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------------------+
|Availability | print/cups/filter/foomatic-db-engine |
+---------------+--------------------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://www.openprinting.org/down-
load/foomatic/foomatic-db-engine-4.0-20160721.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openprint-
ing/database/foomatic.
Foomatic Project 2001-05-07 FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)