On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:56:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Click on add printer and put in Name, Location, Description
Fine. > 2. It then asks for "Device". I choose AppSocket/HP Jetdirect > Is this correct? If you intend to talk to it via the JetDirect, it is. > 3. It then asks for "Device URI". I have no clue as to what to put in > here. We use IP based printing for our XP machines. The JetDirect box > has an IP address of 192.168.0.50. XP machines print to it just fine. > The box shows the word "socket". It also lists these examples: socket://192.168.0.50:9100 Same as your XP machines. Unless you're talking to it from XP as an LPD device (ugh). > 4. I then asks for Model/Driver. I choose HP for Make. I'm then given 3 > choices for Model: It's a Postscript printer. You want to talk to it as a Postscript printer. Talking to it as a Postscript printer would be a very good idea. Did I mention that you should talk to this printer in Postscript? :) > HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) > HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) > HP New DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) None of these. Use the PPD file on the CD that came with the printer (as per linuxprinting.org). See: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1300 for the details. Put the PPD exactly where it tells you to, then do: # /etc/init.d/cupsys restart *then* add the printer using that PPD. In general, if you have the option of talking to a printer *natively* in Postscript, always do so. Most *nix applications output Postscript in any case, and introducing another translation step is silly. Exception: you'll need a decent amount of RAM in the printer. The 1300 starts life with 16 mb, which is enough to get started. -- Marc Wilson | Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
