From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 22 22:51:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19929 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA19917 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA18272; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:51:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA24534; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:25:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970923072533.UX58086@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:25:33 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: arg@arg1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gordon) Subject: Re: lpr/lpd and HP networked printers References: <199709230131.UAA06031@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709230131.UAA06031@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sep 22, 1997 20:31:19 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > You didn't say what printer name you were printing to on the HP. As I > remember there are two names HP supports, "text" and "raw". Forgot > which was considered default. But if you had an old Sun that was able > to print without this banner page then maybe one of these devices > doesn't include the banner? No, both print the d*mned banner page. But, some HP proprietary protocol on a weird port predates the use of lpd in JetDirects. I forgot the port number, i think the protocol itself was fairly simple (just open a TCP connection, and dump your data down to the printer). Maybe the Sun was using this method. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)