FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)                                                                              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 net-
       work 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 par-
                 allel port, you must have bidirectional support enabled at the BIOS level and the  parallel  port  driver  must
                 support the bidirectional 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 (Appsocket) connections.  Most common ports are 9100
                 (JetDirect), 10000 (DLINK).  Usually you can configure the port via a configuration interface.


EXIT STATUS
       foomatic-getpjloptions returns ???


AUTHOR
       Manfred Wassmann <manoloATNCC-1701.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.   Modi-
       fied  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 parallel port do not support bidirectional mode.




Foomatic Project                                           2001-05-07                                  FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)