General Printing Notes

Print job titles may vary depending on client interface used. Titles of print jobs sent to an uplevel printer may be different (usually more descriptive) when sent from the Windows GUI than from MS-DOS prompts. Therefore, banner pages which prominently display the title may look different on this release of AS/U than on previous releases.

Print job titles may have client computername prepended to them. Titles of print jobs sent to an uplevel printer will now have the client computername prepended to them and enclosed in braces, e.g.

Job Title: [computername] Text of the Job Title

This will help to identify jobs submitted by users who are not in the AS/U accounts database since these jobs will be printed by the HP-UX user lmxguest.

for the standard HP-UX lp spooler: asu_config -s spooler, lptitleopt='-t"ASU PRINT JOB"

'for Open Spool: asu_config -s spooler,lptitleopT='-\T"ASU PRINT JOB"'

If a Windows NT 4.0 client has a connection to a down level printer, and that printer is migrated to an uplevel printer (by upgrading AS/U), you must remove that client's connection to the printer and reboot that client before you are able to administer that specific (now) uplevel AS/U printer from that specific client. Alternatively, you can administer that printer from a different Windows NT 4.0 client that does not have an existing down level connection to that printer.

If you are adding a new printer to an AS/U server using Windows NT 4.0 "Add Printer" wizard, the printer name must be 12 characters or less and must not have embedded spaces or invalid characters.

Jobs submitted to AS/U printers from Windows NT clients from a user not in the AS/U accounts database will be printed by the HP-UX user lmxguest. This may result in different banner pages than expected.

If the Windows NT 4.0 interface is used to set AS/U printers' start/stop time, the actual time set on the printers will be 7 hours ahead of that displayed on the Windows NT 4.0 interface.

Print jobs submitted by a Win95 client to an AS/U uplevel printer will have a job name that matches the client computer name throughout the life of the job. Print jobs from WinNT40 clients take on the document name after the job finishes spooling from the client

Print jobs submitted by a Win95 client will be displayed properly and dynamically updated when viewed by the printer manager except for the "amount processed" field, which will always be 0.

Up-level printers on AS/U may be managed from Windows NT 4.x workstations and servers. Windows 95 clients cannot manage up-level printers on AS/U (or Windows NT) servers.

Jobs listed as spooling in AS/U print queues show up on WinNT40 as printing, but will spool and print fine.

AS/U printers will not have their status refreshed automatically when viewed from Windows NT. Press F5 to refresh explicitly.

Print device errors are not indicated by AS/U queues or jobs.

The "take ownership" operation on an AS/U printer does not work

Print queues can not be routed to multiple destinations via the NET command

Processor script printer queues will ignore paused status and print all jobs.

In the NET PRINT /PARMS command, the [EJECT] and [BANNER] options are not supported.