[rescue] my first big iron! and a couple of questions:

[Linc Fessenden]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Kevin wrote:

> Anyone know if this works on HP 4000, 4001 or 4050 printers?
> 
> When i attempt it, all i get is a printed page with the following:
> 
> o2345X at PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY="MY MESSAGE"
> 				      o2345X
> 
> /KRM
> 
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:39:47 -0500 (EST)
> Linc Fessenden <linc at thelinuxlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Kris Kirby wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > > I'm still a big fan of "INSERT 25 CENTS" on older Laserjets.
> > > > 8-)
> > > 
> > > STORY. How can I do this?
> > 
> > Perl Script below:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------#!/usr/bin/perl
> > # phubbard at computer.org 10/23/02 
> > #
> > # Quick hack to set the 'ready' message on HP networked printers,
> > via the# PCL command to do so. See
> > http://www.phfactor.net/code/hpset/
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Well, I use the script I sent to change a 4050tn.   No problems.  Say you
named the script hpset, you would do a :
hpset -m ipaddress "message here"

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-Linc Fessenden

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