We have a HP Design Jet 650C Plotter which is hooked to the net via a jetdirect nic. Now I dont have a clue on how to use this plotter over the net. It doesent show up in the network neighborhood and I cant find anything about jetdirect plotters in the Linux documentation or the inet. The server is running Suse Linux 6.2 and Samba 2.05a. TIA Florian v. Behr
At 13:27 22.08.99 , Florian v. Behr wrote:>We have a HP Design Jet 650C Plotter which is hooked to the net via a >jetdirect nic. Now I dont have a clue on how to use this plotter over >the net. It doesent show up in the network neighborhood and I cant find >anything about jetdirect plotters in the Linux documentation or the >inet. The server is running Suse Linux 6.2 and Samba 2.05a.set up a normal /etc/printcap entry and point it to the JetDirect IP, then share it with Samba>TIA >Florian v. Behr- Mit freundlichen Gr??en Markus Welters ---- Welters Datentechnik Grafenberger Allee 81 40237 Duesseldorf Telefon +49-211-9660093 GSM 0172-2007477 Fax +49-211-9660091 http://www.welters.de MW411-RIPE mailto: markus@welters.de ---------------------------------------------------------------
> We have a HP Design Jet 650C Plotter which is hooked to the net via a > jetdirect nic. Now I dont have a clue on how to use this plotter over > the net. It doesent show up in the network neighborhood and I cant find > anything about jetdirect plotters in the Linux documentation or the > inet. The server is running Suse Linux 6.2 and Samba 2.05a.As I recall, our HP jetdirect printer (LaserJet 4si, I think) is just used by the UNIX machines as a remote print queue. Set up a printcap entry for a remote print spool just like you would if you were printing to a print server running lpd, but the rm= line should be the jetdirect's address. Windows needs a special jetdirect driver to access it. As a result, most of our UNIX machines print straight to the printer (I probably should change that) while all the NT machines print through the server. Michael Heironimus -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison
"Florian v. Behr" <fvbehr@gmx.net> wrote:> We have a HP Design Jet 650C Plotter which is hooked to the net via a > jetdirect nic. Now I dont have a clue on how to use this plotter over > the net. It doesent show up in the network neighborhood and I cant find > anything about jetdirect plotters in the Linux documentation or the > inet. The server is running Suse Linux 6.2 and Samba 2.05a.>From a Windows PC, install the HP JetAdmin software from www.hp.com:http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/hpjetadmin7644.html. Then the printer will show up in Network Neighborhood. On a UNIX box, use the JetDirect card's emulation of the Berkeley lpd printer protocol (remote-printer=DNS-name, device=raw) Read the HP JetDirect manual for further details. Ole H. Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Building 307, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Hi Florian, I have the same configuration and did it this way: - give the plotter a IP address and adjust it at the DesignJet control panel - put the IP address of the plotter in the linux hosts file and give the DesignJet a DNS name - set up an entry for a remote printer without any filters (raw) in the /etc/printcap file for this plotter - export the printer(s) with samba That works fine in our LAN. Carsten> From: "Florian v. Behr" <fvbehr@gmx.net> > Subject: Jet Direct Printers and Plotters...> We have a HP Design Jet 650C Plotter which is hooked to the net via a > jetdirect nic. Now I dont have a clue on how to use this plotter over > the net. It doesent show up in the network neighborhood and I cant find > anything about jetdirect plotters in the Linux documentation or the > inet. The server is running Suse Linux 6.2 and Samba 2.05a. > > TIA > Florian v. Behr