On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > I guess I'm hoping that someone out there has a LaserJet 5 working > with Macs and can help me configure it. Any suggestions are > appreciated.
I set up a JetDirect J2550a+LaserJet 5 for an acquaintance last summer on OS X. There's a Gimp-Print driver for that printer to use under CUPS. You should be able to set it up under OS X by using the GUI config tool. To do this, fire up Safari on an OS X machine and go to the address localhost:631 There's a lot of help there showing you how to set up new printer queues. The printer will not be found automatically because (I think) only the "M" versions of the JetDirect devices have Appletalk support, and it's probably too old for Rendezvous. If you don't know the IP number of the device on your network, there's a lot of help on the HP support site about this. You should also be able to get all the IP info from the printer startup page. While you're at it, check the HP site for a firmware upgrade. That's what I had to do last summer to get it working. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
