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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:05:43AM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
> I have an HP 4M Plus printer, with an older JetDirect card. It's
> currently working with various flavors of Windoze, and is connected only
> to my lan.
>
> I'd appreciate help to install it on Debian Sarge: the foomatic options
> suggest using a URL like ipp://192.168.1.2, but I can't send a test page
> after configuring it that way.
JetDirect speaks LPR protocol nicely. Here's a sample
/etc/printcap entry:
lp:\
:rm=printer.domain.name:\
:rp=:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:
You can add filters to that as desired.
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