Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
The printer manual lists, under "Features", "Interfaces that switch
automatically". It then continues, "A parallel and USB interface, which
is automatically switched according to the data source, comes standard."
I take that to mean that I can have two computers connected to the
printer simultaneously and print from either.
I suspect not; I think that that might mean alternately, not simultaneously.
i.e. only interface is active until its disconnected.
Thank you for replying.
Acting on your suspicion, I turned on my laptop computer only.
When I opened CUPS in my browser, I got the same information as I
mentioned in my original post.
I then opened a terminal. I set out below my commands and the response:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpstat -p -d
printer Okipage_8z is idle. enabled since Jan 01 00:00
system default destination: Okipage_8z
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts
connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$"
I don't know whether the responses I got suggest the error(s) on my part
and how to correct it (them).
I should add that I've never had any difficulty printing out a man page
on my desktop computer using the same printer, .ppd file and command.
Leslie
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