Re: TCP/IP Printing....How to?

["Fred Lenk RHL Linux account" <fllnx CommPower com>]

Easier than with NT. from the startx gui interface, select the printer module
from the control-panel (usually on the left of the screen if you haven't moved
it), and setup a "remote unix (lpd) queue". you can fill ont the Names line as
you wish, then tab down. for Remote Host, use either the canonical name of the
printer as you set it up in your /etc/hosts file or on your DNS server's hosts
file. you only need to use the first name rather than the fully qualified name
probably. Use the same name for the Remote Queue as you used in Remote Host.
Click on the Select button next to the Input filter, and choose the closest
printer type you can find. If its a post script printer of any brand with built
in postscript (not software postscript loaded onto a MS Windows box), just
select Postscript. If you have a HP Laser Jet not mentioned in the list, just
choose HP Laser Jet.

In my case, I setup some of my network HP LJ printers as "raw", that is I
didn't want any additional input filtering because the data has already been
printer-formatted by the Windows boxes who use the HPLJ printer resource setup
on the Linux box. To get a "raw" printer like this, you just select Text-only
Printer, with Fast Text printing (non-PS printers). The MS Windows box sending
data thru the Linux box will take care of stair-stepping and EOF ejects.

good luck, fred

> Date:          Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:14:26 -0600
> From:          "Ed Peddycoart" <peddycoe nichols com>
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> I have a machine with NT 4.0 on it.  I am using TCP/IP printing to print
> directly to a printer which is connected to our network.  How do I
> configure Linux RH 5.2 to do this?
> Ed
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