Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:28:00 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Printing Message-ID: <p05100908b6eec8072f9e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200103311742.f2VHgeY79592@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com> References: <200103311742.f2VHgeY79592@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com>
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At 6:42 PM +0100 3/31/01, David Dooley wrote: >Another printing problem. I have a NewGen printer that has >a network port. I have configured the printer with an IP >address and the correct netmask for my network. I can ping >the printer and it responds. Unfortunately, I don't belive >that the printer supports 'lpd' style printing, at least I >cannot find any where in the menu to configure queues, etc. Many 'lpd-style' printers do not support separate queues (not on the printer itself), so there would be nothing to configure. How did you configure it's IP address? If it HAS an IP address, then one would think that it would accept connections for standard lpd (port 515) or some appsocket-ish connection (often on port 9100). There isn't much point to having an IP address if it won't accept connections to any port other than 'ping'. >The printer works fantastically via the parallel port. I >cannot get any information from the company as they have >been bought out and and no longer sell printers. I have >tried emailing them with no response and of course I got >no documentation with the printer. If it were not for the fact that you said you configured it's IP address, my first guess would be that it understands Ethertalk but does not understand lpd-style protocols. If that WERE true, then you'd want to use some package like CAP or Netatalk to connect to the printer. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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