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- From: gah@hood.hood.caltech.edu (Glen Herrmannsfeldt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Subject: Re: Connecting an HP Laser Printer on the Ethernet
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 21:39:37 GMT
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- We have one of the HP cards, and it works really well.
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- Just a little about how it works:
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- It does not directly support TCP/IP LPD protocol.
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- It takes a single TCP connection on port 9100, stuffs all the
- characters into the printer, and ends on TCP/IP close.
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- The spooler machine runs software to support LPD, and
- take care of normal spool functions. They supply
- it for HP, and sun.
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- It is real easy to write the driver for, though.
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- You can also do
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- telnet printer.name 9100
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- what you type goes to the printer!
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- -- glen
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