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 Message-ID: <19970923072533.UX58086@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709230131.UAA06031@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sep 22, 1997 20:31:19 -0500 References: <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> <199709230131.UAA06031@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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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. ;-)
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