On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alex Finch wrote:
>
> It seems clear to me that several people are having similar problems
> with recent
> version of LPRng talking to HP printers. It is clearly not just
> misconfiguration. I have tried all the various solutions offered on this
> list and none of them work. The fact is for me ANY communication between
> LPRng and our HP printer leaves that printer unusable and requiring a
> power cycle to clear it. Luckily we have a good old fashioned lpd on
> another machine that can talk to it otherwise it would be unusable.
>
> Does Patrick Powell not read this list any more? Last time I was
> subscribed - about a year ago - he was a regular, and helpful
> contributor. Did it all get too much for him?
>
>
>
We're using LPRng 3.6.12-8 (Debian) to talk to 7 HP 2100TN's, a HP4500 and
a HP4550 on the network using port 9100, no problems.
I haven't tried anything newer - If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Dave
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