Re: jetdirect (more questions)

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

I'ld imagine that any of the LaserJet control utilities which SEND PCL
control messages (but do not expect acknowledgements) would work with a
Jetdirect printer in Linux.

Of course those expecting to talk directly to the printer port hardware
would fail....

Somewhere I had a little utility to put up messages on the LCD screen on the
LaserJet printers.

For awhile I had Linux statistics appearing from time to time on the LCD
screen(s).

Great fun.

It's been awhile since I've done this though...

-JMS

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: jetdirect (more questions)


> David E. Lupo wrote:
> >
> > I have one working on our network.  I've seen the suggestion
> > that the queue name be "raw," but when I set ours up, before
> > I saw that, I used "lp" and it worked.
>
> The boxes are fairly intelligent, and will route any prints
> for unknown queues to the main queue usually.
>
> > What I'd still like to learn, though, is how to control the
> > duplexer and how to tell the printer to switch out of
> > economode to regular density.
> >
> > Anyone had any experience with either of these features?
>
> A great deal, but only on the PJL/PCL level.
>
> As for a quick way of doing this with options, I'm not too sure.
> Long, long ago, I wrote a lousy little wrapper for lpr that
> would masage the PCL toward this end.  Surely, there is
> something out there that takes care of this by now, isn't there?
>
> - Kevin Colby
>   kevinc grainsystems com
>
>
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