Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:25:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@Glue.umd.edu> To: Terry Woods <twoods@ccgate.sos.state.il.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net connected printer Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960425131540.16058D-100000@vdal1.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9603258304.AA830454042@ccgate.sos.state.il.us>
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On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Terry Woods wrote: > > > > ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ > Subject: Re: Net connected printer > Author: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) at SOS08410 > Date: 4/25/96 10:23 AM > > > In a previous message, Terry Woods said: > >> > >> > >> I have a network Lexmark 4029 using a HP Jetdirect > >interface. > >> What dev (lp=) should I use in the printcap > > >The HP JetDirect card is not a lpd server. You need software from HP > >to talk to it. As far as I know that software is available for > >HP/UX, SunOS and Solaris. It works quite well. > > >The JetDirect does talk appletalk and (I think) Novell, directly. > > >Paul. Well I don't know enough to wade in on this except to say that I have a HP4M with the jetdirect card on my 10B2 network and lpr ing works fine give the following /etc/printcap entries, one for postscript and one for ascii. Since the 4M is a auto switching printer, I would guess you could just send ps and ascii to the ascii entry or vise versa, but I have never bothered to try. These entries were created right from information in the Jetdirect manuals which tells you how to set up lpd. Photon is the name I have my printer in /etc/hosts lp|hp4|photon|Networked HP4M plain text:\ :lp=:\ :rm=photon:\ :rp=text:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: hp-ps|hp4m|photon-ps|Networked HP4M PostScript:\ :lp=:\ :rm=photon:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > Can I handle this printer as described in FreeBSD handbook > under the heading "Printers with Networked Data Stream > Interfaces" > > > Terry > > --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@eng.umd.edu <A HREF="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~crb">My home page</A>
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