Re: Need help printer setup on Redhat Linux

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 06/02/05 

Date: 2 Jun 2005 13:12:17 GMT

[fup-to set, no need for all those froups]
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On 2005-06-02, me@privacy.net <me@Privacy.Net> wrote:
> In message <429DAA27.2090106@nospam.noaa.gov>, RC
><raymond.chui@nospam.noaa.gov> writes
>>My OS is rhel-3 update 4

I think OP pays RH for answering this kind of stuff, right?

>>My printer is HP LaserJet 8000N
[snip!]
>>lpadmin -pmy_printer_name -v/dev/lp0 -claserjet -mps
> Should there be a space between the -v and the /dev
> Do you need to mount /dev/lp0 before use?

Mount a printer? Not that I'm aware of.

> I presume you are using the parallel cable as this is lp0 have you tried
> setting it up as a network printer instead, I presume the N of 8000N
> implies network

In which case you don't need a lp0 at all.

> that way you might be able to just send postscript files
> to that ethernet address.

Uhm. Better assign an IP address (BOOTP/DHCP/static) to the printer and
use that instead. But if that is the case then one does not need cups
and all that, just a small printcap entry for lpd. Then, I do not know
how linux, or more specifically rh enterprise, prefers to support this.

> Is there a linux howto for printer setup?

LDP, and redhat probably has its share of their own branded explanations. 

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