FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8)

💖 FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS 💖

ok so bestie, we're in the System Manager's Manual section of the foomatic lore, and this little cutie is foomatic-getpjloptions, section 8. she's giving printer-whisperer energy and honestly? obsessed. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

foomatic-getpjloptions — <put a short description here> (yes girl, the original really does say that, it's giving placeholder realness, we don't make the rules 💀)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

foomatic-getpjloptions device

foomatic-getpjloptions hostname port

two whole ways to call her, pick your fighter 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: foomatic-getpjloptions sends a whole little set of PJL commands at your printer, and then reads back the PJL options and status from it — and she can do this over a network connection or over a device bidirectional interface like parallel, USB, or serial. the good stuff gets printed to standard output ✨

and the slay part? you can pipe that output straight into foomatic-addpjloptions to add options to the database. it's giving pipeline, it's giving teamwork, it's giving main character energy fr fr 💖

🎀 Options 🎀

• device — the interface your local printer is plugged into, like /dev/lp0, /dev/usb/lp0, /dev/tty00, etc. heads up tho: for a parallel port you must have bidirectional support enabled at the BIOS level, and the parallel port driver has to actually support the bidirectional mode. so go check your parallel port BIOS settings for EPP/bidirectional mode, bestie, no cap 🙈
• hostname — host name or IP address of a network printer (HP JetDirect, DLINK, etc.).
• port — the port where your network printer listens for socket (Appsocket) connections. the most common ones are 9100 (JetDirect) and 10000 (DLINK). usually you can configure the port through a configuration interface, so it's lowkey flexible 💅

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

foomatic-getpjloptions returns ???

and yes, that's literally what it says. the mystery continues, we simply don't know, it's giving cliffhanger 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project, using output from the associated binary. then Patrick Powell <papowell at lprng.com> came through and modified it to provide better support for network printers, error messages, and to remove CR and FF from the output. two icons, one utility 🫶

🌈 WARNINGS 🌈

bestie listen. uni-directional protocols as remote LPD are not supported — because no status is returned, and we need that status. also, some network print servers that attach to a printer parallel port just do not support bidirectional mode. so if it's not working, it might not be you, it might be the hardware being uncooperative 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was the Foomatic Project version, dated 2001-05-07, from the FOOMATIC-GETPJLOPTIONS(8) manual. go forth, read those PJL options, pipe them into the database, and slay ✨💅🎀