HP JetDirect printer and foomatic

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:05:43AM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
>  
>
>>I have an HP 4M Plus printer, with an older JetDirect card. It's
>>currently working with various flavors of Windoze, and is connected only
>>to my lan.
>>
>>I'd appreciate help to install it on Debian Sarge: the foomatic options
>>suggest using a URL like ipp://192.168.1.2, but I can't send a test page
>>after configuring it that way.
>>    
>>
>
>JetDirect speaks LPR protocol nicely. Here's a sample
>/etc/printcap entry:
>
>lp:\
>        :rm=printer.domain.name:\
>        :rp=:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:
>
>You can add filters to that as desired.
>
>-dsr-
>

Thanks, I figured it out: foomatic wants to treat JetDirect cards as 
"Socket" interfaces, but once the printer is working, it shows as using 
"ipp".

Bill Horne

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