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Re: Best way to connect to JetDirect printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunando Sen)
Fri Nov 8 20:15:07 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 20:09:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Sunando Sen <sunando@nycc.com>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Greg Hartzog wrote:
> Hello folks. I am asking this question here because I had no luck
> searching the RedHat mailing list archives.
>
> I have several really nice HP printers (POSTSCRIPT capable) on my
> network. They all have JetDirect cards in them and are configured for
> TCP/IP. I have gotten the JetAdmin software for the commercial UNIXes
> I am running and set up the printers. I would like to be able to
> print directly off my Colgate box to the various printers. The
> question is what software poackages do I need to run?
>
> I have configure "/etc/printcap" and can get stuff to the printer, but
> it "stair steps". I know "stair steps" is a filter problem, but I do
> not believe that I can specify filters on remote printer queues. I
> have used APS in the past, but it seems there should be a better way
> then that.
>
> How are other people handling this. I guess I could always send stuff
> another UNIX box which has JetAdmin software so the filters are setup,
> but I would like to NOT do that.
>
> Thanks in advance for all the help.
>
HP Jetdirect has two lpd queues, "raw", which does not do LF->CR-LF
translation, and "text", which does. Just create two corresponding
queues in you printcap with rp=text and rp=raw.
Another possibility is to create two printcap entries, called, say "hp5si"
and "remote". The "remote" entry points to the "raw" queue (rp=raw) on
the HP printer. The "hp5si" is a local queue and it uses a filter script
that checks the file to be printed and pipes the file to nenscript if it
is a text file, and leaves it alone if it is a postscript file. At the
final step it lprs the resulting PS file to the "remote" queue.
This is more or less what I am doing. If anyone knows of a simpler
solution, I would like to hear of it.
Regards,
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