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by **Michael John Panchu** » Fri, 29 Jul 1994 17:18:31

Here's what I'd like to do: print off of HPlaserjet 4MXsi which has a
JetDirect card installed in it. With the addition of the JetDirect card, the
printer has it's own IP address, is network aware, and has TCPIP enabled.
How do I go about setting up Linux to print to the beast?

by i » Sat, 30 Jul 1994 19:33:21

: Here's what I'd like to do: print off of HPlaserjet 4MXsi which has a
: JetDirect card installed in it. With the addition of the JetDirect card, the
: printer has it's own IP address, is network aware, and has TCPIP enabled.
: How do I go about setting up Linux to print to the beast?

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by **Donald Beck** » Sun, 31 Jul 1994 02:11:28

Quote:>Here's what I'd like to do: print off of HPlaserjet 4MXsi which has a
>JetDirect card installed in it. With the addition of the JetDirect card, the
>printer has it's own IP address, is network aware, and has TCPIP enabled.
>How do I go about setting up Linux to print to the beast?

The "Novell" in your subject line is a little misleading.
The HP4SiMx printer has excellent support for many networking protocols,
including Novell IPX and 'Unix lpr' TCP/IP.

You need only configure your /etc/printcap file to treat the printer as a
normal printer attached to a remote machine, and create the correct spool
directory. Pay particular attention to the "rm=" entry.

Here is an entry for a printer with hostname hp4simx:

lp|simx|HP 4SiMX printer:\
:rm=hp4simx:/usr/spool/lpd/simx:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/simx/lpd-errs:

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by **Gareth McAlee** » Sun, 31 Jul 1994 23:44:08

: Here's what I'd like to do: print off of HPlaserjet 4MXsi which has a
: JetDirect card installed in it. With the addition of the JetDirect card, the
: printer has it's own IP address, is network aware, and has TCPIP enabled.
: How do I go about setting up Linux to print to the beast?

Easy, assuming you have allocated an ip number for it and an entry in the
DNS (or equivalent) to HP4MXsi, create or add the following to your
/etc/printcap

----------------------------- /etc/printcap --------------------------------
# HP LaserJet 4si MX attached directly to the network - ascii text
text|ascii|LaserJet 4siMX:\
:lp=:rp=text:rm=HP4MXsi:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
# HP LaserJet 4si MX attached directly to the network - PCL/Postscript
raw|4si|HP JetDirect:\
:lp=:rp=raw:rm=HP4MXsi:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

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it worked for me.

Gareth

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by **Van Dao M** » Sun, 31 Jul 1994 10:04:34

: Here's what I'd like to do: print off of HPlaserjet 4MXsi which has a
: JetDirect card installed in it. With the addition of the JetDirect card, the
: printer has it's own IP address, is network aware, and has TCPIP enabled.
: How do I go about setting up Linux to print to the beast?

<<< Money!!! Novell NFS is the product. It has the modules called
lpr_gway and lpr_srv that will make it possible to print to Novell.
Too bad, this is not free!

Alternatively, use a normal PC, IP services and Winsock. Then get a
winsock lpr server from the place where they keep all free winsock
programs. You can have UNIX to PC-print server printing

by **Kenneth Whel** » Wed, 03 Aug 1994 00:24:44

>Easy, assuming you have allocated an ip number for it and an entry in the
>DNS (or equivalent) to HP4MXsi, create or add the following to your
>/etc/printcap
>----------------------------- /etc/printcap --------------------------------
># HP LaserJet 4si MX attached directly to the network - ascii text
>text|ascii|LaserJet 4siMX:\
> :lp=:rp=text:rm=HP4MXsi:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
> :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
># HP LaserJet 4si MX attached directly to the network - PCL/Postscript
>raw|4si|HP JetDirect:\
> :lp=:rp=raw:rm=HP4MXsi:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
> :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

There is a very good example of how to do this in the manual for the 4si.
Just don't put spaces between the raw and the | or the text and the |.

It will not work that way.

You can also set up this printer to update to your syslog on linux. All you
have to do is to give the printer the IP address of the linux machine with
syslogd running. Very nice.

Regards
Ken

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