Re: Help with Laserjets

["Richard G. Roberto" <richr@Bear.COM>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card.  I know
> it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special. 
> I just cannot find any info on how to do that.
> 
> Any ideas?

The printing howto docs address this, but in a nutshell:

Most modern network printers have a native lpd such that you can
configure the printer's IP address, add an entry for it in your
host tables (i.e. /etc/hosts, DNS, NIS, etc) and add an entry for
it as a remote host with a bogus remote printer name.  If you
plan on using a filering package, you should probably
"pre-filter" your print jobs by printing to a filtered queue and
having the filter forward the print job to another queue that
just throws the print job to the remote printer.

I have the following entries in my /etc/printcap file:

auto-lj|lp5|ljet4-a4-auto-mono|ljet4 auto mono:\
        :lp=/dev/lp0:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/log:\
        :af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
        :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:
rlp1|remote-ljet4|hplj4m-1|ljet4-a4-auto-mono|ljet4 auto mono:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote-ljet4:\
        :rm=hplj4m-1:rp=raw:

where /usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-auto-mono is the
filter provided by apsfilter with the following modifications:

REMOTE_PRINTER is set to "True"

the if clause that looks at REMOTE-PRINTER builds the PRINT_PS
command as PRINT_PS="$PRINT_PS | lpr -Premote-$PRINTER"

$PRINTER gets defined by splitting the called filtername ($0) on
the dashes and grabbing the first string.  This makes this filter
genarally useful for remote printing.

Hope this helps.  You should really read the howto docs though as
there is a lot of valuable info in there.

Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan


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