El Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:15:10PM -0600, Gary L. Dolan escribió: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > No, JetAdmin and CUPS/lp* do very different things. Among other things, > > JetAdmin and friends can communicate via SNMP to a networked printer, > > allowing you to do fun things like reboot it or query paper status and > > things like that. CUPS/lp* only handle local queue stuff. They don't > > do much talking to printers beyond sending jobs to them. > > > I hate to leap in here, but I have been just looking at a similar > problem. The basic setup: old standalone NT box, using LaserJet 8000 DN > printer. JetDirect software, and the card, were installed but never > used. New debian box (have to share with W2000) connected to LAN. Is > there any way to use the debian box to (a) feed print jobs to the 8000, > and (b) monitor print status, queue, etc., thru JetAdmin and > JetDirect? The 8000 has to remain with the old NT box as the basic > setup, but it seems a shame to waste it's rather significant potential. > I have looked around for some linux JetAdmin stuff, found nothing. > I have a second card in the new box that I tried connecting to the > JetDirect card, to see what I could do, but so far no luck. > Perhaps even tho there is no JetAdmin stuff available for linux, are > there other possible ways of controlling this big dog of a printer > thru the debian box? I suspect that the original poster is in somewhat > the same situation, wondering what to do next? Thanks for any decent > suggestions.
Long time ago I used some tools to setup a JetDirect printer under
linux, I promise you that it could be done :), moreover cups support
JetDirect printers, but I don't know if they have to been setup before
or cups setup them.
BTW looking for jetadmin at fm.net show up 2 projects that seems to
support it, ones from HP and other that also support snmp printers, so
maybe they will be usefull for you.
Also making a search on google for "jetadmin linux" show this on the
first position:
Downloads and Drivers for hp web jetadmin software for ...hp web
jetadmin software drivers and downloads for American English. ...
Microsoft Windows
2000, Linux - Red Hat 7.1. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Linux - SuSE
Linux 7.1. ...
www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/hpwebjetad1880_swen.html - 49k -
Cached - Similar pages
So ... I think that HP had tools for jetadmin on linux.
Have fun!
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