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How do I set up a network printer or print server?
HP printers, Netgear print servers and others often use direct socket printing. To print, you simply send data to a specific network port: 9100 for HP, 9101 for the second printer on a HP multiport print server, 4010 for Netgear and so on. There's no protocol, headers, trailers - whatever you send, the printer gets
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| Local printing in Synchronics | 2011 11 | 2012/03/06 anonymous | |||
| - I know exactly what he has - an old SCO Unix system with a Digiboard multiport serial board, green screen Wyse terminals and Okidata printers with serial cards. I can handle all of that. - | |||||
| Brother MFC-J615W printer | 2011 08 | ||||
| - I have never been a fan of inkjet printers. In fact. my general advice has been not to buy them because hey are far more expensive to operate than laser printer. These multifunction things have even more to dislike: if you lose part of the functionality, you are going to lose it all while it is out for repair. - | |||||
| A SCO Openserver to Red Hat Linux Conversion | 2011 04 | 2011/04/02 TonyLawrence | |||
| - A detailed history of a SCO to Linux Conversion - including desktop users. - | |||||
| print filters -->Re print filters | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - print filters for System V printing (convert input for specific printer type, select specific pages to print) - | |||||
| How can I add or remove printers from the command line? | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - How can I add, modify or remove printers from the command line? - | |||||
| CUPS print to file - the hard way! | 2003 03 | ||||
| - Cups print to file - | |||||
| RS232 Wiring Diagrams | 2001 12 | ||||
| - Color coded diagram for understanding RS232 EIA-232 Wiring pinouts printers, terminals and modems. DB9 and DB25. - | |||||
| How do I install a HP Network Printer or Print Server? | 1997-2003 | 2011/06/08 Bill | |||
| - How to install hp jetdirect print server on Unix. Before you do anything else, the printer needs an IP address. Some models let you do that right on the printer itself, all have Windows software that will assign it, and if all else fails you can configure it with BOOTP. - | |||||
| Printing from Unix to Windows Printers | 2005 06 | ||||
| - Using nothing more than the software that comes free as part of most Unix and Windows systems, you can successfully print from Unix to Windows printers. - | |||||
| How do I set up a network printer or print server? | 2009 09 | 2010/06/23 TonyLawrence | |||
| - How do I set up a network printer or print server? - | |||||
| What is netcat and how do I use it? | 2002 09 | ||||
| - Using direct port printing - | |||||
| Printing to a remote printer with a dynamic address | 2003 06 | ||||
| - You have a PC at home and you make some sort of connection over the internet to your server, but your application needs to print to your PC. - | |||||
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| Printer Problems/Solutions | 1999 01 | 2012/04/25 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Unix Sys V printing basics - | |||||
| Network Printer Port Numbers | 2000 09 | ||||
| - Port numbers for various network print servers. SUMMARY: Some users may want to print through a router or a firewall and may need to allow access to these destination ports through those devices. - | |||||
| Linux print pdf files | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - Understanding Postscript and PDF Printing. Unix systems understood Postscript early on because high end printers understood Postscript natively - just send them a Postscript document and they could print it. That's often NOT true today except for more expensive printers. - | |||||
| How do I print man pages from the command line? | 1997-2003 | 2010/12/25 Josh | |||
| - "man" formats the text with Ctrl-H backspaces and multiple letters to make bold text. Your printer may make a mess of it. - | |||||
| Using System V interface scripts with CUPS printing | 2009 12 | 2009/12/23 TonyLawrence | |||
| - But what if I wanted to add an automatic form feed to the end of that, or do some other special processing? - | |||||
| Parallel printer cable length | 2004 07 | ||||
| - The docs for OS/2 stated that 6 feet was the maximum length the printer cable could be for a parallel port connection. So, I guess the OS has something to do with this spec? Limits to Parallel printer cable length. Given that reliable parallel port operation limits one to a cable length of no more than 15 feet, network print servers make a lot more sense. - | |||||
| My printer doesn't work at all! | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - The first test is whether or not you can print to the raw device - | |||||
| Serial Printers | 1998 | ||||
| - The secret to success with printers on serial ports is understanding that the computer and the printer must agree on baud rate and flow control - | |||||
| Using the spooler to print to email | 2003 12 | ||||
| - First define a new spooler destination using the dumb interface script and /dev/null for the device. Give your new spooler destination a name - I called mine email displaying a deficit of imagination. Next, change directory to /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces and edit email if that's what you called it. I use and like vi for editing but you can use whatever editor you like. Finally, I added a line, changing the FILTER to get the emailing done. - | |||||
| Network Troubleshooting | 2010 03 | 2010/03/16 AndrewSmallshaw | |||
| - As it turned out, the problem was very physical: a light fixture had fallen down and loosened some connections to a long forgotten ethernet switch. - | |||||
| Technical FAQ 7 of 9 | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - Questions and Answers Related to Printing (mostly SCO OSR5, some Linux) - | |||||
| Netgear PrintServer PS110 | 2001 02 | ||||
| - Although it is usually easy enough to find a Windows PC to configure these with, it isn't absolutely necessary. You can assign an IP address using arp (the MAC address is printed on the bottom of the unit) and then ftp to it, using the "Device name" printed on the unit as the login name, "get config", edit that and then put it back. A final "get RESET" will cause the PS110 to read the new config file. - | |||||
| What are printer interface scripts? | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - What are System V printer interface scripts? - | |||||
| Pass-Through Printing | 1998 12 | ||||
| - The idea is that if the terminal sees a special key sequence, it will start sending the data out some other port (parallel or serial) until it sees some sequence that tells it to stop. - | |||||
| FAQ - How can I make a printer that will print to a file? | 2004 06 | ||||
| - Setting up a printer that will print to a file can be useful for any number of reasons. - | |||||
| How do I stop banners from printing? | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - Note that there are some Unix printer interface scripts which do not use /etc/default/lpd, and you must use an option to these to disable banners. Also, some Unix printer interface scripts expect the Xenix syntax above. Aren't standards wonderful? - | |||||
| Printing from Solaris to Windows | 2008 02 | ||||
| - Solaris to windows lpd - | |||||
| Converting Print Files to HTML Invoices | 2002 11 | ||||
| - Takes a CSV file and turns it into HTML invoices that are ready to print - | |||||
| How can I get the file from the print spooler before it prints? | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - How can I get the file from the print spooler before it prints? - | |||||
| Configuring Network Printers | 1998 | ||||
| - HP JetDirect is probably the most common network printer. - | |||||
| What is a virtual printer? | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - What is a virtual printer? - | |||||
| Users and their printers | 2011 02 | ||||
| - In olden days, the need for user assigned printers was met with LPDEST, but of course that is only useful for one printer. This customer needs more. - | |||||
| Using Netcat for a simple lpr client | 2002 09 | ||||
| - Using Netcat for a simple lpr client - | |||||
| 'arpwatch' for security and administration | 2003 08 | ||||
| - 'arpwatch' for security and administration. arpwatch' is also a useful administration tool. We recently purchased 7 HP print servers for some printers, and new offices. Since they initially get their IP address from a DHCP server, arpwatch emails me when I put a print server on the network. - | |||||
| How ps works and why | 2004 07 | ||||
| - Almost every Unix variant does 'ps' slightly differently; flags have different meanings and column headers or position also differ. - | |||||
| GDI Printers | 2006 04 | ||||
| - Why is Printing to Windows-only GDI (host printers) so difficult? It's because these GDI printer drivers expect GDI data, a Microsoft format that is used both for displays and printers. It's basically a bit map of the page to be printed, but what's more important is what it is not: it isn't text, it isn't PostScript and it isn't PCL. - | |||||
| Add a Netgear PS110 printserver to Mac OS X Tiger | 2006 03 | 2010/02/11 anonymous | |||
| - TCP/IP socket printing in Mac OS X - | |||||
| hp canaccess printer -->Re Problems trying to access HP Printer | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - Problems trying to access HP port 9100 JetDirect Printer from SNMP settings. - | |||||
| My printer faults and prints same document over and over | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - My printer faults and prints same document over andover - | |||||
| How do I stop a print job and restart it from the beginning? | 1997-2003 | ||||
| - How do I stop a print job and restart it from thebeginning? - | |||||
| Controlling Firefox Headers and Footers | 2007 12 | ||||
| - After a bit of experimentation, I determined this: upon restarting Firefox, I would have the correct print dialog, and it would stay that way right up until I asked Google Docs to print. - | |||||
| netcat script | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - Hmmmm... HPNP. No garbage left in /tmp after each print job? No spooler lockups when printing a large number (>500) of simultaneous small files? No difficulties autoswitching between Postscribble and PCL? No failure to restart if rebooted while printing? No exessive LAN traffic if printers with one model of JetDirect card ran out of printer and HPNP would poll the printer thousands of times per second? - | |||||
| Print file listings from the command line | 2009 09 | ||||
| - The OS X Finder suffers from a rather amazing limitation: you can'tprint the list of files you see in a Finder window. - | |||||
| Switching to Windows | 2009 04 | ||||
| - Yesterday I popped in to help an app provider with a problem they were having accessing a shared printer from a Windows Server 2008 box - | |||||
| Switching to a Mac - not yet | 2009 03 | ||||
| - Quickbooks now wants me to spend a few hundred dollars to upgrade for emailing invoices - | |||||
| Spoiled Brat Printers | 2009 03 | ||||
| - printing is a source of a lot of problems and frustrations. - | |||||
| The Last Time I Climbed a Ladder | 2008 11 | ||||
| - The Last Time I Climbed a Ladder - | |||||
| Printers Down | 2008 09 | ||||
| - Ancient unix system with two dead printers - | |||||
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| Creating LPD Filters | 2008 02 | ||||
| - LPD output filters. There really should be no reason you'd need to do this on any modern Linux, but I had a client with an old RedHat 7.0 system who wanted to control the output to a laser printer, specifically to make it print Landscape orientation. Hard to believe, but "printtool" on that version provided no such option. - | |||||
| Dual printing | 2007 12 | 2011/05/23 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Printing to multiple printers - | |||||
| Wiggle that Mouse | 2007 11 | ||||
| - Remember, I said this was a while ago - this was System 7 time frame. - | |||||
| HP's CloudPrint | 2007 08 | ||||
| - My neighbor mentioned this in passing the other day. He had the details wrong; he thought this sent documents to your cell phone for storage and later printing. No, that's not quite it, but it's almost as silly. - | |||||
| Wireless print servers | 2007 06 | ||||
| - Wireless print servers - why? - | |||||
| No more Parallel/Serial? | 2006 12 | ||||
| - Is parallel port printing gone? - | |||||
| Losing data over VPN | 2006 11 | ||||
| - When the vpn is not at fault for data loss. Sometimes change is good, sometimes it's bad, and sometimes it's a mixed bag. Such was the case recently when a customer switched a remote office from a 56K line to using a Kerio VPN over Internet connections. - | |||||
| Plastering your printer | 2006 11 | ||||
| - Back in the computer room again. I looked at the printer, it was fairly new: in fact I had installed it not very long ago. It certainly didn't have a worn out feed mechanism and obviously it had just printed several pages. As I thought about that, I became aware that the room seemed humid - much more so than it should have been given the temperature. I then noticed the elephant: a freshly plastered wall. I put my hand on it, it wasn't damp, but it was still fairly cold. The manager had followed me. I turned and asked the obvious: "Was this done recently?". She responded affirmatively. - | |||||
| Another old SCO box | 2006 10 | ||||
| - Will this be the very last SCO 3.2v4.2 system I see? Who knows..only time will tel - | |||||
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