Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:18:24 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: David Bein <bein@world.std.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ... Message-ID: <336860000.1068675504@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <3FB2B072.23E45EED@world.std.com> References: <3FB2B072.23E45EED@world.std.com>
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--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:13:06 -0500 David Bein=20
<bein@world.std.com> wrote:
> Hello ...
>
> I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup
> for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap,
> but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because
> if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines
> and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not
> the hardware or network connectivity.
>
> I am confused about whether this should be "lp=3D<port>@<host>"
> with appropriate filters or some variant of "rm=3D<host> rp=3DTEXT".
> None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100
> and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except
> in the <port>@<host> configuration. Neither of these approaches worked.
>
> I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer.
> Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using
> apsfilter
> and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have
> it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of
> speed
> and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other
> machine.
This is a printcap entry I use for a PostScript enabled LaserJet 5:
lj5|lphome: \
:lf=3D/var/log/lj5.err:\
:lp=3D:\
:rm=3Dlj5.lerctr.org:\
:mx#0:\
:rp=3Draw:\
:sd=3D/var/spool/lpd/lj5:
Maybe it will help you.
LER
>
> There was software from HP for this box for Solaris and HP-UX, but
> I am running FreeBSD and occasionally Solaris/x86, so I have none
> of the software from HP to work with.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks very much.
>
> --David
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