RE: [Sheflug] Printing on a Novell Printer

["James Mears" <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Nicola
> It may be that the university don't use Novell print queues 
> to print to. IIRC a HP printer with Jet direct card can be 
> set up to be a print server that hosts the queue instead of a 
> node that just gets its jobs from a Netware print queue.  Not 
> sure how you'd go about setting up tp print to that.  Do you 
> have the IP address for the printer?  Next step would be to 
> find more information about how the printers are set up on 
> the network. They should be able to provide you with that information.

Nicola

Many HP laser printers have a LCD panel on the front. If the printer has
its own internal 
jetdirect card you should be able to print out a config page that tells
you what the IP 
address of the printer is. If you can manage to get the IP then you
should be able to print 
directly to the IP address by creating a printer queue using the IP as
the TCP printer port. 
(I know this works on SuSE with CUPS so it should work on RedHat)

If you can find the printers IP then printing directly will probably be
the best thing to try.

Regards

James

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