[ale] Setting up printers

George A. Nies gnies at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 28 13:22:52 EDT 1998


James Patrick on Sat wrote:
> How can you set up printing so that you can print to a network printer, that
> is driven by a HP jetdirect card.
>
> Brgs, James

JetDirects know how to talk lpd.  Give the JetDirect an IP address (see
its docs or email me)
and then set it up /etc/printcap.

rm == remote machine,
rp == remote printer (text or raw, text sends hp pcl "TEXT START" code),
mx == maximum file size (lines, 0 = infinite)

example printcap entry:
hp|hp jet direct:lp=:rm=:<jet direct dns name>:\
   rp=raw:sd=/usr/spool/<whatever>:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:mx=0:






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