Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:13:06PM -0500, David Bein wrote: Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. There are two senerio's. 1. You have a post script printer. In this case you should be able to send post script files directly to the printer daemon without having a filter in betwain. 2. You have a non post script printen. In this case you proberbly can send plain text files to it. The dos format will print fine and the unix format result in the first line being printed fine and the rest continue with a offset. I'm one of those person in senario 2 and print my files though the apsfiler to make the format right before sending it to the filter. This is my printcap: # APS1_BEGIN:printer1 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL lp|laserjet|lj4dith;r=600x600;q=high;c=gray;p=a4;m=auto:\ #:lp=:\ #:mx#0:\ #:sh:\ :rm=192.168.31.31:\ :rp=raw:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet/acct: # APS1_END - don't delete this I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer. Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using apsfilter and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of speed and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other machine. Check if you can print the defaul format. If you can the you have a misconfiguration is the apsfilther. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer. Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using apsfilter and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of speed and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other machine. There was software from HP for this box for Solaris and HP-UX, but I am running FreeBSD and occasionally Solaris/x86, so I have none of the software from HP to work with. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks very much. --David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:13:06 -0500 David Bein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ... I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. I am wanting to use this with an old LaserJet 4L PCL class printer. Directly connecting it to a parallel port works just fine [using apsfilter and all the other Postscript conversion software]. I just want to have it work from whichever machine using the network both for reasons of speed and not wanting to have a single box up just to print from some other machine. This is a printcap entry I use for a PostScript enabled LaserJet 5: lj5|lphome: \ :lf=/var/log/lj5.err:\ :lp=:\ :rm=lj5.lerctr.org:\ :mx#0:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj5: Maybe it will help you. LER There was software from HP for this box for Solaris and HP-UX, but I am running FreeBSD and occasionally Solaris/x86, so I have none of the software from HP to work with. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks very much. --David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HP JetDirect EX printer problems ...
In the last episode (Nov 12), David Bein said: I have an older J2383 Jet Direct box which I am trying to setup for a FreeBSD 4.9/x86 box. I have tried various things in /etc/printcap, but still I get nothing reasonable. I know the box is working because if I telnet to port 9100 on the Jet Direct and type in some lines and then quit out of telnet, it prints them. So my problem is not the hardware or network connectivity. I am confused about whether this should be lp=port@host with appropriate filters or some variant of rm=host rp=TEXT. Either should work. I prefer the rm style since that works a bit better when you have multiple systems printing to the same printer. Make sure to telnet to the jetdirect and disable banners, though. None of the software examples I have seen appear to reference port 9100 and so I am confused as to how it knows what to connect to except in the port@host configuration. Neither of these approaches worked. What happens? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
