Re: Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

I've used a LaserJet 4M with JetDirect for years, and I assume a JetDirect
card on one HP printer is pretty much the same as another. Here are the
printcap entries I use:

ascii|caxton_ascii:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=caxton:\
        :rp=text:\
        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ERRORLOG:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/caxton_ascii:

raw|caxton_raw:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=caxton:\
        :rp=raw:\
        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ERRORLOG:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/caxton_raw:


Aside from my using a resolvable hostname instead of an address in rm=, the
only real difference I can see is in our lp= entries. Mine works; I can't
figure out whether yours should or not.

Aside from that, I always follow the practice of running lpr as

        lpr -Pprinter_name file_name

not, as you do

        lpr -P printer_name file_name

Again, I don't know if this difference is consequential or not.

At 05:57 PM 5/23/00 -0500, A. Scott White wrote:
>I am trying to set my Debian box to print to an HP LJ-8000 with a Jet Direct
>card. has anyone ever done this?
>
>I want the name of the printer to be surgery. Assuming 111.222.333.444 is
>the IP of the Jet Direct card, here is my current setup:
>
>printcap:
>#========================================
>lp|surgery|Surgery:\
>        :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/surgery:\
>        :rm=111.222.333.444:rp=raw:
>surgery-text:\
>        :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/surgery-text:\
>        :rm=111.222.333.444:rp=text:
>#========================================
>
>If I enter the command line:
>
>lpr -P surgery-text myfile.txt
>
>or:
>
>lpr -P surgery mypsfile.ps
>
>I get nothing. If I check lpq, it shows that a job was processed by the
>queue, but nothing comes out of the printer.
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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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