Printcap question

[Matthew J Brodeur]

   I'm out of ideas on this, having never had this not work on the first
try.
   Maybe someone else knows HP printers a little better?

Matthew J. Brodeur, mbrodeur at NextTime.com
Hostmaster, Webmaster for NextTime.com, NextTime.org
http://www.NextTime.com


On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I tried that and know it says that it doesn't have an lp.  Are
> there any other options I need to use?  Does this work with HP Jetdirect?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
> 
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Matthew J Brodeur wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > 
> > > 	At work I need to set up a Linux box to print to an HP Laserjet
> > > 4050TN.  The HP has an IP so I need to create a printcap file that prints
> > > to an IP instead of a port.  I have only used the wizards of SuSE and
> > > Redhat to set up printcaps, so yo ucould say I am very ignorant when it
> > > comes to manually setting it up.
> > 
> > 
> >    I've got my RH6.1 box printing to an HP 4000 series with an entry like
> > this:
> > hs:\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hs:\
> >         :mx#0:\
> >         :sh:\
> >         :rm=###.###.###.###:\
> >         :rp=:
> > 
> > (the ###'s in the rm section are the IP of the printer)
> >    That's the way printtool set it up.  Most network based printers will
> > accept an LPR connection, or can be told to with some sort of config
> > program.  Our Tek color printers are pretty much the same, except that the
> > last field is ":rp=AUTO:".
> > 
> > 
> > Matthew J. Brodeur, mbrodeur at NextTime.com
> > Hostmaster, Webmaster for NextTime.com, NextTime.org
> > http://www.NextTime.com

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