Network Printer - Help too please

[tonydm]

fredex wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:49:30PM -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:33:15PM -0800, tonydm wrote:
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>>>Terry Polzin wrote:
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>>>>On Thursday December 30 2004 20:46, tonydm wrote:
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>>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>>I too have a network printer problem.  I cannot seem to get a printer
>>>>>configured and work.  All of my windoze boxes print to the print server
>>>>>fine.  Before taking FC3 for a test drive, I had Mandrake 10 installed.
>>>>> Configured a printer no problem.  Was printing in minutes.
>>>>>
>>>>>Intel NetportExpress 10/100 - ip 172.16.0.100
>>>>>HP Laserjet 4000
>>>>>
>>>>>1) what to I need to enable (protocol) on the print server?
>>>>>2) what kind of network printer type (CUPS-IPP, UNIX-LPD, WINDOWS-SMB,
>>>>>etc), do I need to setup?
>>>>>3) can I use the default hplj4000 postscript driver?  The screen says
>>>>>"recommended"
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>>>>system-config-printer
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>>>>select networked jetdirect as quque type
>>>>run this command as root.
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>>>Printer is online!! :)
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>>>But I feel like such an idiot.  I don't recall setting up the printer 
>>>with Jetdirect under Mandrake.  I did recall directing it to the ip 
>>>address at port 9100.  My problem was I was trying to set it up with 
>>>everything EXCEPT Jetdirect under FC3.  I thought "it couldn't be this 
>>>because I don't have a Jetdirect server".   Thanks for the education.
>>>
>>>tonydm
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>>It is not the server that is necessarily jetdirect it is the interface
>>on HP printers that are jetdirect.
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>Actually,... all the modern laserjets with an ethernet interface emulate
>a Unix lpd print queue, which is much more flexible than the old 
>jetdirect "protocol". so, just choose "networked unix lpd", use a
>queuename of "raw", give it the printer's IP address, choose an
>appropriate printer driver, and voila!
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I truely welcome all the wonderfull advice.  But somewhere there is the 
impression that I have a Laserjet 4000N with Ethernet built in.  I do 
not.  I have a plain jane printer which requires a parallel connection 
to print.  That's where the Intel NetportExpress 10/100 came in.  It is 
the print server, not any part of the printer.