Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD
Thus spake Andrew MacIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > they weren't particularly reliable, particularly when multiple jobs were > queued simultaneously. I hope their more recent stuff is better behaved. It is now. A further thing is: If your LaserJet doesn't understand PostScript, you have to use apsfilter. I do it this way here at home, the Windows-boxes use the JetDirect directly (the Windows software is REALLY nice!) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any > information greatly appriciated. Ah...printers...my next to modems, my least favorite periphial to deal with. I have hooked up a lot of different printers to FreeBSD boxes and HP JetDirect cards don't work as well since they only allow 1-2 simultanious network conections to the printer. If you haven't purchased them yet get an Axis print server box instead. I highly recommend them. www.axis.com. JetDirect cards work, just not was well as Axis cards. It is also important that you upgrade your jetdirect firmware to the latest rev if this is an older card. There are some bugs specific to their LPD implimentation. You can also turn off banner pages on the later firmware code. johnl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 13:52:12 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X > > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any > > information greatly appriciated. > > These things have an LPD server built in IIRC, so your could just > configure them as a remote LPD printer in /etc/printcap. > > However, I've not been totally satisfied with some of HP's earlier > attempts at LPD support in JetDirect cards for their lasers printers, as > they weren't particularly reliable, particularly when multiple jobs were > queued simultaneously. I hope their more recent stuff is better behaved. > > You might want to check out LprNg or CUPS to see whether they support the > native HP protocol (on port 9100???) if your box doesn't seem to cope, so > that one box can be the "print server" and thus serialize all the jobs. > We do this at work, although in that case NT is providing the "print > server" function. You can setup the stock FreeBSD lpd to talk the native HP printer protocol to a HP printer with a Jet Direct card. I've got the following setup on a -current box that talks to my HP LaserJet 4000 (hostname is "printer"): in /etc/printcap: lp|ps:\ :mx#0:lp=9100@printer:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:\ :if=/usr/local/lib/filters/inputshell:\ :of=/usr/local/lib/filters/ofhp: /usr/local/lib/filters/inputshell is just this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp -Ttbcp=on,model=5M exit 0 The ifhp/ofhp comes in the ifhp port, which is ports/print/ifhp. The above setup works well with either text files or postscript. Ken -- Kenneth Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any > information greatly appriciated. These things have an LPD server built in IIRC, so your could just configure them as a remote LPD printer in /etc/printcap. However, I've not been totally satisfied with some of HP's earlier attempts at LPD support in JetDirect cards for their lasers printers, as they weren't particularly reliable, particularly when multiple jobs were queued simultaneously. I hope their more recent stuff is better behaved. You might want to check out LprNg or CUPS to see whether they support the native HP protocol (on port 9100???) if your box doesn't seem to cope, so that one box can be the "print server" and thus serialize all the jobs. We do this at work, although in that case NT is providing the "print server" function. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) | Snail: PO Box 370 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (play) |Belconnen ACT 2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (play2) |Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD
Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any information greatly appriciated. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
