Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:52:42 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000401225242.A19443@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000402134329.190B-100000@CENTRAL>; from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au on Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:52:12PM %2B1000 References: <004a01bf9b35$0cc56be0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000402134329.190B-100000@CENTRAL>
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 13:52:12 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X > > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any > > information greatly appriciated. > > These things have an LPD server built in IIRC, so your could just > configure them as a remote LPD printer in /etc/printcap. > > However, I've not been totally satisfied with some of HP's earlier > attempts at LPD support in JetDirect cards for their lasers printers, as > they weren't particularly reliable, particularly when multiple jobs were > queued simultaneously. I hope their more recent stuff is better behaved. > > You might want to check out LprNg or CUPS to see whether they support the > native HP protocol (on port 9100???) if your box doesn't seem to cope, so > that one box can be the "print server" and thus serialize all the jobs. > We do this at work, although in that case NT is providing the "print > server" function. You can setup the stock FreeBSD lpd to talk the native HP printer protocol to a HP printer with a Jet Direct card. I've got the following setup on a -current box that talks to my HP LaserJet 4000 (hostname is "printer"): in /etc/printcap: lp|ps:\ :mx#0:lp=9100@printer:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:\ :if=/usr/local/lib/filters/inputshell:\ :of=/usr/local/lib/filters/ofhp: /usr/local/lib/filters/inputshell is just this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp -Ttbcp=on,model=5M exit 0 The ifhp/ofhp comes in the ifhp port, which is ports/print/ifhp. The above setup works well with either text files or postscript. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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