[857] in RedHat Linux List
Re: hp printer on ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Fri Oct 25 06:09:23 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:07:26 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <199610250916.FAA32499@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> from "Jeff Uphoff" at Oct 25, 96 05:16:49 am
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> MB> We have an hp LaserJet 5M printer connected directly to our ethernet
> MB> (i.e. not connected to a server machine) with an IP number assigned
> MB> to it. Has anyone configured Linux to talk directly to one of these
> MB> types of printer interfaces or is it possible? I'm running Colgate
> MB> 4.0 on an Intel machine.
>
> You should just be able to treat the printer the same as if it were the
> server system itself. You'll need to know what it thinks its own queue
> name is, e.g. 'lp', 'RAW', etc....
The two LPD queues HP JetDirect cards ought to have are called "raw"
and "text". The first is used for raw PostScript or PCL data, the second
for plain text. I don't know about recent models, but this was the
situation for their previous cards.
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