Hello, On Jan 24 10:28 Paul Ollion wrote (shortened): > I hope I am not OT with this question :
[email protected] is right for printing stuff. > I have been given an Epson stylus Color 1520 printer, which is very > interesting since it can accept larger sizes of paper. > It works nicely on a parallel connection, but it is provided vith an Ethernet > connection add on card C823623 but I do not have the manual for this card and > I do not know its default address and do not know how to change it. > There is just a Mac address on the card. > Is it possible to make this card work ? It depends on which generic protocols the card supports so that data can be sent via the card to the printing unit. Many printserver boxes and network printers have somewhat problematic implelentations of the LPD protocol (and for the IPP protocol it is even worse) and then the CUPS lpd backend (or IPP backend) fails to communicate correctly with such a device. It is recommended to use the simple TCP socket data transfer if it is supported by the printserver box / network printer because usually there is no need for a complicated protocol (LPD - or even IPP) for only the plain data transfer to a network printer. Look for the ports at your printserver box / network printer (often it is port 9100 - in particular for HP network printers) and read your printserver box or network printer manual or use "nmap" to scan it for ports. See for example our online manual (package suselinux-manual_en) "Network Printers" and "Network Printer Connections" and for some general information have a look at http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell (in particular see the "The Backends" section). > I asked on an Epson technical list but they said they did not know and they > would be interested to know if anyone found a sulution on a linux list. If their card supports at least one generic protocol, it doesn't matter which operating system is used to send data via the card to the printing unit. But if their card supports only whatever weird stuff which works only with their software for whatever weird system... See for such a bad example http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2185 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
