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by **Douglas Paul Thie** » Mon, 10 Aug 1998 04:00:00

I'd like to put my HP IIP printer on my home LAN. (Yes, I have a hub).

I don't want the printer directly hooked up to my linux box with a
parallel cable. I need to move the printer off my desk.

Anyone know how to do this? What hardware is
necessary/available/compatible on the printer side?

==Douglas Thiel

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by **Tim Wilso** » Mon, 10 Aug 1998 04:00:00

> I'd like to put my HP IIP printer on my home LAN. (Yes, I have a hub).

> I don't want the printer directly hooked up to my linux box with a
> parallel cable. I need to move the printer off my desk.

What's wrong with a longer printer cable? :-) Seriously, if that's the
only reason, you could set up your Linux box as a print server, and you
wouldn't have to spend any extra money.

Quote:> Anyone know how to do this? What hardware is
> necessary/available/compatible on the printer side?

I think you'll need to buy a JetDirect print server from HP. This is an
external box that you plug into your network and into your printer. They
also have internal ones, but I don't know if the IIP can use the int.
version. You need to give the JetDirect an IP address and you're set.
(You configure it via telnet.)

Good luck,
Tim

by **Ted Stabero** » Tue, 11 Aug 1998 04:00:00

Hi Doug,

A longer printer cable or a Jet Direct (HP) are the answers to your
problem. The Jet Direct must be an external for an HP 2P as the 2P does not
have an MIO slot.

Ted Staberow
Prairie Networking, Inc.

> I'd like to put my HP IIP printer on my home LAN. (Yes, I have a hub).

> I don't want the printer directly hooked up to my linux box with a
> parallel cable. I need to move the printer off my desk.

> Anyone know how to do this? What hardware is
> necessary/available/compatible on the printer side?

> ==Douglas Thiel

by **Clarence Wilkers** » Tue, 11 Aug 1998 04:00:00

HP and others sell net connections of two sorts for printers:

1) An internal card that fits in the io option slot. I don't
believe the IIp has such a slot ( II, IID, III do ).
3) an external box with net coming in and parallel and/or
serial going out.

New prices were about $300 for these options. Used? maybe a
$100 if you can find them.

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Clarence Wilkerson \ HomePage: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~wilker

Dept. of Mathematics \ Messages: (765) 494-1903, FAX 494-0548
Purdue University, \
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