Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Talking to HP Deckjet printer
From: Frank Crawford (frank@kent.ansto.gov.au)
Date: Tue Dec 30 1997 - 19:25:21 EST
Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It should be possible to connect the printer to linux via the parallell
> port and let netatalk hand it out on AppleTalk. One can either share it
> as a postscript printer (LaserWriter) and use ghostscript to generate HP
> PCL, or (this is what I want, but never had time to set up) you should
> be able to share it as a HP DeskJet 850C by setting the right "type" in
> AppleTalk. See this example:
...
I've previously done this, i.e. running it as a LaserWriter connected to
a Linux box and using ghostscript, and it works well. Unfortunately, my
children (who generate most of the colour printouts) want it closer to
their Mac, which is located in a different room. So it needs to be
either physically connected to the PowerMac or on some sort of print server
in their room (but I'm trying to avoid buying one at present).
>From some other comments, I guess I need to use lpdaemon, which I have,
but I don't know the correct settings for a printer connected to the
printer port. I know this is a little outside scope of this list, but
can anyone suggest the right settings? The sample config file says (for a
serial printer):
PRINTER <name1> SERIAL <name2> [baud stop parity bits]
<name1> is the spool queue, but <name2> is the name of the serial driver,
which I don't know, and the "[baud ...]" I wouldn't have thought I needed
for the printer port. After all, isn't it a parallel port of some sort.
(I come from a Unix and PC background, so I don't know much about the low
level stuff of the Mac, it works so I don't normally play with it. :-))
Thanks for all the help so far.
Frank
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