This manual contains information about the current release of DCPS.
Revision/Update Information: These release notes supersede all other documentation.
Software Version: hp DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) for hp OpenVMS, Version 2.2
Operating System:
hp OpenVMS Alpha, Version 6.2, 7.2-2, 7.3 or 7.3-1
hp OpenVMS VAX, Version 5.5-2, 7.2 or 7.3
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These release notes describe new features, bug fixes, usage hints, restrictions and other useful information for this release of DECprint Supervisor. System managers and users should review this document for new information about installing and using this release of DCPS.
Starting with DCPS V2.0, the need for DCPS-OPEN and DCPS-PLUS licenses has been eliminated. The right to use all features of DCPS is now included with the OpenVMS operating system license. |
These release notes contain the following chapters and appendices:
The primary source of information about DCPS is the following set of software manuals:
Software Installation Guide | Describes how to install DCPS |
System Manager's Guide | Describes how system managers, data center operators and application programmers can create and manage DCPS print queues and solve printing problems. |
User's Guide | Describes how to use DCPS to print to PostScript printers. |
Software Product Description (SPD 44.15.xx) | Contains the full list of printers supported by DCPS and additional information about the features and requirements of DCPS V2.2. |
For additional information about HP OpenVMS products and services, visit the following World Wide Web address:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ |
HP welcomes your comments on this manual. Please send comments to either of the following addresses:
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For information about how to order additional documentation, visit the following World Wide Web address:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ |
Part numbers for DCPS-related documentation are listed in the Ordering Additional Documentation appendix of the Software Installation Guide, System Manager's Guide and User's Guide.
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This section describes changes included in DCPS V2.2. You can
find more information for several of these changes elsewhere in these
release notes.
1.1 DCPS Version 2.2 Changes
1.1.1 New Printers Supported
DCPS V2.2 adds support for the following printers:
GENICOM Intelliprint mL260
HP Color LaserJet 2500
HP Color LaserJet 5500
HP LaserJet 4200
HP LaserJet 4300
HP LaserJet 5100
HP LaserJet 4100 MFP
HP LaserJet 9000 MFP
Lexmark C750
DCPS now supports the autostart feature for execution queues. To make a DCPS queue be an autostart queue, specify AUTOSTART_ON in the P2 parameter to DCPS$EXECUTION_QUEUE in DCPS$STARTUP.COM. For example:
$ IF .NOT. SETUP_MODE THEN @SYS$STARTUP:DCPS$EXECUTION_QUEUE - COLOR_PRINTER - AUTOSTART_ON=(FOO,BAR)::"IP_RawTCP/hp5500.lkg.dec.com" - DCPS_LIB |
In this example, the execution queue COLOR_PRINTER, printing to the printer at hp5500.lkg.dec.com over raw TCP, is set to autostart on nodes FOO and BAR.
Please note the following details concerning autostart:
Previously, if you were using raw TCP to print, a port number had to be
specified in the P2 parameter to DCPS$EXECUTION_QUEUE in
DCPS$STARTUP.COM. Port 9100 is now assumed if no port number is
specified.
1.1.4 New Setup Mode for Startup Procedure
The DCPS startup procedure, DCPS$STARTUP, can now be run in a shortened "setup" mode. This mode would most commonly be used if your queues are autostart queues, and you wanted to speed up the execution of DCPS$STARTUP. In setup mode, logical names needed by DCPS are defined, but no queues are created, modified or started.
To run DCPS$STARTUP in setup mode, pass SETUP as the P1 parameter. For example,
$ @SYS$STARTUP:DCPS$STARTUP SETUP |
To define logical names, DCPS$STARTUP now creates a "setup file" each time it runs in normal (non-setup) mode. This file is called DCPS$STARTUP_SETUP.COM and is run when DCPS$STARTUP is later run in setup mode. The setup file should not be modified and is only for use by DCPS$STARTUP.
Please note the following details concerning setup mode:
If you try to print to a printer model unsupported by DCPS, the printer is classified as an "unrecognized" printer and while printing is attempted, it may not be successful.
DCPS now has a "generic HP" class of printer to help in printing to new HP printer models. When printing to an HP printer not recognized by DCPS, a set of paper sizes, tray names and commands to select those trays, known to work with HP printers, are used. Therefore, features not available with an "unrecognized" printer are probably available with an "generic HP" printer. These features include tray selection and use of the printer's native PCL interpreter.
If a printer is being treated as a "generic HP" printer, an OPCOM message will be issued similar to the one used with "unrecognized" printers:
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 14-NOV-2002 16:25:43.37 %%%%%%%%%%% Message from user SYSTEM on FUNYET Queue NEW_PRINTER: %DCPS-W-HPGENERIC, Product name hp LaserJet 9999 not recognized; assuming HP Generic |
The following problems are fixed in DCPS V2.2.
1.2.1 Tray Name Restored
In DCPS V2.1, the output tray SIDE was inadvertently removed from the possible trays on the HP LaserJet 8000, 8100 and 8150 printers. This tray was still selectable with the name STACKER, but is now selectable by either name.
The following sections provide information about using DCPS with
specific printers. The System Manager's GuideSystem Manager's Guide and User's GuideUser's Guide contain additional
printer-specific information.
2.1 Problems Starting Queues
Some HP printers do not respond to the DCPS synchronization request at the beginning of a job. Therefore, you must define the logical name DCPS$queuename_NO_SYNC before queues to these printers are started, or DCPS jobs will not start. See Section 3.2 in these Release Notes or the System Manager's GuideSystem Manager's Guide for more information. The printers for which you must define the logical name are:
HP Color LaserJet 2500
HP Color LaserJet 5500
HP LaserJet 4200
HP LaserJet 4300
It is also recommended that the printer's personality setting be set to PS (PostScript).
Setting the printer's personality to PS (PostScript) alone will not solve the problem for these printers. This problem is expected to be resolved in a future version of printer firmware. |
The HP Color LaserJet 2500 printer cannot detect the size of paper in its trays, even if the size has been specified via the printer's console. Therefore, the following restrictions apply when using DCPS with this printer:
Output trays STACKER and STAPLER refer to the same physical tray, included with the printer's optional finisher.
The preferred way to specify stapling is with the DCPS parameter STAPLE, which offers four different staple positions and takes page orientation into account when determining staple position. Therefore, when specifying stapled output with the STAPLE parameter, use OUTPUT_TRAY=STACKER.
If you specify OUTPUT_TRAY=STAPLER, the printer will staple output by default and place the staple in the printer's default staple position. Job burst and flag pages, if any, will be stapled to your job.
Not all staple positions are possible given the printer's paper feed direction and page orientation specified. Also, the HP LaserJet 9000 offers more possible stapling positions than the LaserJet 4200 and 4300 printers, which can staple only at the top left for portrait output and top right for landscape output.
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