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Has anyone else managed to get the 'point and print' (automatic driver installation - PRINTER$) system to work with the Hewlett Packard 2500 Colour inkjet. I have taken a look at the HP web site and it seems that they have changed the format of the driver INF files (and hence does not work with the make_printerdef utility). I have almost managed to get it to work (by a little hacking).

...Rng and in most cases spool to a Novell server sharing printers via NFS. The output of 'lpq' for printers that spool to the Novell server is quite different from printers that we spool to directory (via Jetdirect). Output of lpq for a printer that spools to a Novell queue: --- [root@vulcan HP2500]# lpq -Pbaboon Printer: baboon is MRDS_HP4MV@mr.tait.co.nz no entries -- Output of lpq for a printer that it spooled to directly (Jetdirect): -- [root@vulcan HP2500]# lpq -Ptest Printer: test@vulcan 'VULCAN test' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: server finished at 15:03:51 --...