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From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@Glue.umd.edu>
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To: Terry Woods <twoods@ccgate.sos.state.il.us>
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Subject: Re: Net connected printer
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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
> 
> 

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