七少爷Seventh Prince wrote:
I can't seem to set-up my office's HP Laserjet5 on mylaptop running on
Ubuntu Debian 2.6.10 (Gnome). HP is on IP printer system.
Am setting up using 'Unix Printer' LPD where I fill in the IP address of
the printer. Should I be using 'CUPS' Common Unix Printing System IPP
or Windows Printer (SMB) under Samba?
Since the printer is not manufactured by Microsoft, you should not be
using Samba. It should work with CUPS.
PReviously I setup the Canon IP2000 copier/printer, (ip printer)
successfully under Unix Printer (LPD) with the help of Canon support
engineer. Only to find out that printer supports do not support
postscript. It was printing gibberish when I did one testprint.
You use ghostscript, plus an utility like apsfilter or magicfilter to
drive it. Depends on what language the printer talks. All printers
understand ASCII text (except for GDI printers which you should avoid),
so you could say
date ]/dev/lp0
(for a printer connected to the parallel port) and get a readable
output.
Kind regards,
Daniel von Asmuth
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