[clue-tech] Setting up Network printer in CUPS?

[Adrian F Nagle IV]

Roy,

Thank you for your rely.  The Hawking print server is to allow me to put 
the parallel port printer on the network.  I have a static IP set up for it.

The server will be down in the basement in a "closet".  The printer 
should stay in the den.

I don't know what you mean by CUPS "seeing" the printer.  I just enter 
in the data for the driver.  Is there a way to test if CUPS sees the 
printer?  I only tried to print test pages.

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:07, Adrian F. Nagle, IV wrote:
>> I'm trying to setup an HP-LaserJet6P/MP laser printer on a Linux
>> (Debian)/Samba server.  I have my Linux server all running now but I
>> can't get my HP printer (hooked up to a Hawking HPS1P parallel-port
>> print server) to work with CUPS.
> 
> What's that Hawking thingy supposed to do,  exactly?
> 
>> In CUPS, I tried to add the LaserJet through the web interface and
>> print a test page.  I tried a number combinations of IPP or HTTP, but
>> no test page would print out, until 30mintues/1hour later I find two
>> copies of the CUPS test page.
> 
> Did CUPS actually see the printer?
> 
>> I've followed this tidbit I found:
>> http://www.hawkingtech.com/newsdetails.php?NewsID=20
>>
>> I'm stuck at how to diagnose this issue.  One complication is that I
>> tried to print directly from windows recently using IPP, but the print
>> server appears to crash (I can't check it through HTTP).  Hawking just
>> suggested adding an LPD.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with a parallel port print server?
>>
>> I need to have this set up in Samba as well.  I'm not sure yet what I
>> need to to do have my users see the printer.
> 
> For what it's worth,  I acquired an LJ5 fairly recently.  Plugged it into my 
> server and set it up in CUPS.  Then started fiddling around some.  I can 
> print from this laptop,  or from the workstation that's out in the other 
> room,  no problem.  The key there is that CUPS needs to be running on each 
> machine,  and that it needs to be set up so that it's pointing at the printer 
> connected to the server.  Some fairly trivial twiddling under KDE,  Control 
> Center -> peripherals -> print manager -> configure I think pretty well 
> covers most of it.
> 

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