UNIX PRINTING 1 - 3- Page 16

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 3

The actual format of the entry may vary depending on your system, 
check your system documentation and also note the format of other 
entries in the 

/etc/hosts

 file.

In any case, the node name in the 

/etc/hosts

 file must match the 

node name in the 

/etc/printcap

 file.

Some systems such as HP-UX and AIX allow you to enter the IP 
address as the host name when setting up the print queue. If this is 
the case, you do not need to configure the hosts file.

2

Choose which Print/Fax server service you want to use. There 
are several types of services available on Brother Print/Fax 
servers. Binary services pass data through unmodified and are 
therefore required for PCL or PostScript rasterized graphics 
printouts. Text services add a carriage return at the end of each 
line for proper formatting of UNIX text files (which end in linefeed 
and do not have carriage returns). The text service can also be 
used for non-rasterized graphics, such as ASCII PostScript 
graphics or many types of PCL graphics.

Choose one of the available services (a service name will be 
used in step 3):

BINARY_P1 Binary data
TEXT_P1

Text data (CR added)

You may set up multiple print queues on your UNIX host 
computer for the same Print/Fax server, each one with a 
different service name (for example, one queue for binary 
graphics jobs and one for text jobs). 

The node name in this file does not necessarily need to be 
the same as the one that is actually configured into the 
Brother Print/Fax server (the name that appears on the 
printer configuration page), however, it is good practice to 
make the names the same. Some operating systems, such 
as HP-UX, do not accept the “_” character in the default 
name, for these systems you must use a different name).