Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:38:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: twoods@ccgate.sos.state.il.us, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net connected printer Message-ID: <199604252338.QAA20330@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199604251515.KAA05226@astro.acs.uswest.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Apr 25, 96 10:15:41 am
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Paul T. Root wrote:
>
> In a previous message, Terry Woods said:
> >
> >
> > I have a network Lexmark 4029 using a HP Jetdirect interface.
> > What dev (lp=) should I use in the printcap
>
> 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.
>
> The JetDirect does talk appletalk and (I think) Novell, directly.
there is a JetDirect card that does multiple protocols,
including IP. if you have one of those, you can use
this printcap:
lp|woc4SiMx:\
:lp=:\
:rm=woc4SiMx:\
:rp=raw:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd:
where woc4SiMx is defined in /etc/hosts
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Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/
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