[netatalk-admins] Talking to HP Deckjet printer


Subject: [netatalk-admins] Talking to HP Deckjet printer
From: Frank Crawford (frank@kent.ansto.gov.au)
Date: Sun Dec 28 1997 - 08:47:00 EST


I'm running Netatalk 1.4b2 on Linux 2.0.33 (bits) talking to a PowerMac
(jc) running MacOS 8, printing from the Mac to Linux and file sharing
works okay, but I can't seem to print from the Linux box to the printer
connected to the Mac. The printer is a HP DeskJet 850C, connected to
the printer/appletalk port and running the latest HP Deskjet 8000
Printer Driver. It works fine from the Mac.

It appears that the HP driver doesn't support PAP or any other network
accesses on the Mac.

So does anyone have any suggestions of how to access this printer? The
choices I see are to:
        a) Allow connections to a HP printer,
        b) To enable the option to allow PAP to connect
           (but how do you do this?), or
        c) Put something else in place (I've tried lpdaemon3.4, but it also
           can't seem to find the printer, although I may have the SERIAL
           options wrong for the printer port).

                                                                Frank

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