From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 13:05:27 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01574 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:05:27 -0800 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA01558 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:05:24 -0800 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA16062; Tue, 14 Mar 95 14:42:23 GMT Received: by junco.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA21383; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 07:42:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 07:42:27 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9503141442.AA21383@junco.fsl.noaa.gov> To: 70312.2134@compuserve.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <950314040421_70312.2134_CHV68-1@CompuServe.COM> (message from Tom Stevelt on 13 Mar 95 23:04:21 EST) Subject: Re: HP4si with Jet Direct Network Card Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Stevelt <70312.2134@compuserve.com> writes: Tom> Anyone out there printing with FreeBSD to an HP4si laser Tom> printer with Jet Direct Network Card? We have several Tom> Windows and SCO Unix machines which can print to it. About three years ago I modified lprps to open a socket to communicate with the printer, do accounting, error collection, etc. It's even easier than you think (replace the tty open() with socket()), but I can try to dig up the sources if you really want (warning: this was on SunOS 4.1.1, though, plus had several mods for my accounting system and user consultant beeper to tell them to put more paper in the printers). --k