[ale] printer support in router

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Mon Apr 21 12:42:25 EDT 2003


On Monday 21 April 2003 11:34 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Whoa!  I misread your post!!!
>
> Just assigned the IP of the printer plugged into the printer port (which
> is your router's internal IP) to the CUPs printer URL.  What you will be
> doing is just telling CUPS that it must connect to the printer via an IP
> instead of a local USB or parallel port.  If the printer understands
> Postscript or if CUPs has a driver for the printer you are in business.
> Dow

Ah.  Great.  Then it should work for us.  I'm getting closer and closer to 
putting the whole family on Linux.

Thanks,

Michael

> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >I'm looking for a way for my wife and me to share a printer and ran
> > across a broadband router with a printer port.  Anyone know how these
> > work?  Of course, the docs say you must have Windows of Mac, but who
> > reads docs.
> >
> >Can I just use, say, CUPS and tell it that it has a network address?
> >Anyone using one of these?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Michael
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