Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 21942
PCL printers that also support PJL
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
I have a Minolta pageworks printer that emulates PCL5e and supports PJL. It uses the ljet4 ghostscript driver. This problem is that the master-filter does not have an option to generate the PJL delimiter command. This causes a printer that supports PJL to consider the print job pending even after it has completed. The net result is that the printer will not go into power save mode. Here is a patch to fix master-filter to have a PJL option. That option would need a check box on printtool and an extra options box. The extra PJL options can be used for multi-language printers, for example: EXTRA_PJL_OPTIONS='LANGUAGE=PCL\r\n' --- /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/master-filter Wed Aug 30 12:28:56 2000 +++ ./master-filter Wed Dec 6 11:44:32 2000 @@ -378,9 +378,26 @@ fi # +# see if we need to send PJL commands +# + if [ "$SEND_PJL" != "" ]; then + printf '\033%%-12345X' + fi + if [ "$EXTRA_PJL_OPTIONS" != "" ]; then + printf "$EXTRA_PJL_OPTIONS" + fi + +# # run the command! # eval $bestpath 2>/dev/null + +# +# see if we need to send PJL commands +# + if [ "$SEND_PJL" != "" ]; then + printf '\033%%-12345X' + fi # #
rhs-printfilters is not going to be gaining new functionality, as we've written a new system, printconf, to replace it. I believe that the linuxprinting.org backend that printconf lays upon has these capabilities.