topic Re: Printing with a canon ir330 in Operating System - HP-UX

Printing with a canon ir330

Terrence — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:15:45 GMT

I think I'm close on this one. So far from the forums I've discovered that the way to get this printer working on my servers is to set it up as a remote printer. However it isn't hooked to any system, it has it's own nic. It's hostname is nb00imcnn. What do I put into the printer name, remote system name, and remote printer name in sam to properly configure this. Steve Post sort of answered this in an earlier message but it wasn't complete enough for me to figure out. Also is there a configuration on the printer itself I need to change?

Re: Printing with a canon ir330

erics_1 — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:47:45 GMT

Terrence,

Take a look at TKB document id A3993149 "Setting up network printing to third party network printer". This document gives instructions on setting up a third-party network printer up as a remote printer via SAM.

Hope this helps!
Eric

Re: Printing with a canon ir330

Bill Hassell — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:39:22 GMT

There are only two network printer protocols in the Unix world: RFC 1179 and HP's proprietary JetDirect protocol. Since this is a Canon printer, it will look like a remote printer using RFC 1179. As you've seen, you need 3 pieces of information, the local printqueue name, the remote printer's IP address or hostname, and (the difficult part) the printer's internal name. You also need to check the BSD printer option in SAM.

The difficult problem seems to be dragging the 3rd piece of information out of the manufacturer. For HP network printer cards, there are two names: raw and text. This means you can print plain ASCII files where the printer will add the requisite CR character to every LF.

Once you get the name(s) from the manufacturer, you can complete the installation. NOTE: if there is no text option with this printer, all ASCII printing from HP-UX will require the ux2dos filter in front of lp.