On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:22:08 +0000, rowan[canspam] wrote:
One of my clients has an HP 8000N laser printer connected to the network and is
currently the default printer on his Linux / Apache web server. When people
place an order it prints out on the 8000N. Unfortunately since it's a network
device used by 15 people in the office printed orders some times get picked up
with output from the 15 users and the order gets lost until a customer complains
he hasn't heard anything. The client has requested I change the default printer
to a Brother MPC9700 which sits behind the owner's son-in-law to try to
eliminate mis-placed orders. The MPC9700 claims to emulate either a Laserjet II
or IIP. This printer is attached to a PC running XP and the printer is shared.
In printtool I created a printer, selected the Brother MPC9500 (the 9700
wasn't in the list) and tried sending a test page. This produced an error on
the XP printer status box. I tried changing the driver to RAW but the same
error resulted. The linux box is running Red Hat 7.2, we can't upgrade as it's
running a proprietary database which is not compatible with 7.3 or later. Does
anyone have a suggestion for how to get the MPC9700 to work via a printer share
on an XP box?
for testing purposes, do they have any other windows boxes connected to
this network? if so, can they print to the XP /Brother printer (ie make
sure that the share on the xp box is working)
next, try setting the driver on the XP box to HP Lazerjet II and print a
test page (on XP) as that driver, if that works, then try using the HP
Lazerjet driver on the Linux box.
Michael
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