Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:25:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@Glue.umd.edu> To: Terry Woods <twoods@ccgate.sos.state.il.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net connected printer Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960425131540.16058D-100000@vdal1.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9603258304.AA830454042@ccgate.sos.state.il.us>
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On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Terry Woods wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Net connected printer
> Author: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) at SOS08410
> Date: 4/25/96 10:23 AM
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> In a previous message, Terry Woods said:
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> >> I have a network Lexmark 4029 using a HP Jetdirect
> >interface.
> >> What dev (lp=) should I use in the printcap
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> >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.
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> >The JetDirect does talk appletalk and (I think) Novell, directly.
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> >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:
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> Can I handle this printer as described in FreeBSD handbook
> under the heading "Printers with Networked Data Stream
> Interfaces"
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> Terry
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