CUPS & network printing

[PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca>]

Folk,

A printer is connected to a Squeeze system here with a parallel cable.  
CUPS is installed and there is no problem printing directly from the 
host.

I'm interested to have this printer work for other machines on the LAN.  
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/network.html contains,
"Verifying the Printer Connection
  ...
ping myprinter
PING myprinter (192.0.2.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.0.2.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=15 time=5 ms".

Whereas here, this is the result.
root@dalton:/# ping HPLaserJet1100
ping: unknown host HPLaserJet1100

Seems that for network access, the printer must be assigned an 
IP address.  Can anyone find documentation?  Can the address be
assigned in /etc/network/interfaces ?  Otherwise, where?

Thanks,                      ... Peter E.

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