On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 13:52:12 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X
> > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any
> > information greatly appriciated.
>
> These things have an LPD server built in IIRC, so your could just
> configure them as a remote LPD printer in /etc/printcap.
>
> However, I've not been totally satisfied with some of HP's earlier
> attempts at LPD support in JetDirect cards for their lasers printers, as
> they weren't particularly reliable, particularly when multiple jobs were
> queued simultaneously. I hope their more recent stuff is better behaved.
>
> You might want to check out LprNg or CUPS to see whether they support the
> native HP protocol (on port 9100???) if your box doesn't seem to cope, so
> that one box can be the "print server" and thus serialize all the jobs.
> We do this at work, although in that case NT is providing the "print
> server" function.
You can setup the stock FreeBSD lpd to talk the native HP printer protocol
to a HP printer with a Jet Direct card. I've got the following setup on a
-current box that talks to my HP LaserJet 4000 (hostname is "printer"):
in /etc/printcap:
lp|ps:\
:mx#0:lp=9100@printer:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:\
:if=/usr/local/lib/filters/inputshell:\
:of=/usr/local/lib/filters/ofhp:
/usr/local/lib/filters/inputshell is just this:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp -Ttbcp=on,model=5M
exit 0
The ifhp/ofhp comes in the ifhp port, which is ports/print/ifhp.
The above setup works well with either text files or postscript.
Ken
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