From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 21: 2:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF5D37BD11; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 21:02:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id PAA17375; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:01:58 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA06549; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:55:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:52:12 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <004a01bf9b35$0cc56be0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any > information greatly appriciated. These things have an LPD server built in IIRC, so your could just configure them as a remote LPD printer in /etc/printcap. However, I've not been totally satisfied with some of HP's earlier attempts at LPD support in JetDirect cards for their lasers printers, as they weren't particularly reliable, particularly when multiple jobs were queued simultaneously. I hope their more recent stuff is better behaved. You might want to check out LprNg or CUPS to see whether they support the native HP protocol (on port 9100???) if your box doesn't seem to cope, so that one box can be the "print server" and thus serialize all the jobs. We do this at work, although in that case NT is providing the "print server" function. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 andymac@pcug.org.au (play2) | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message