how setup a new printing port??

[Peter Gillis]

Hi....ux 11.11v1
I have an intermec label printer and have been advised to send print jobs as LPD and use port 9100. I am setting the printer up as a remote printer but it connects directly to the network. I believe I have finally found the queuename for that network connection port but I am unsure how to use port 9100 from the unix side of things. Anyone help????
thanks heaps,
Maria

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi Maria,

Port 9100 is used by jetdirect for network printing. Basically when any network printer is configured using jetdirect it prints on port 9100

Try installing the printer using HP Jetadmin software, that will print on that printer on port 9100

Rajeev

[Matti_Kurkela]

The one that advised you might be confusing two printing protocols.

The LPD protocol uses port 515 and requires the queue name. Essentially, the network printer behaves like a generic unix server with a printer directly attached.

(Some network printers understand several LPD queue names and handle the data differently depending on which queue name is used. Others just require a specific name to be used, and there are some which ignore the queue name altogether. For example, HP JetDirects know "raw" and "text" and you should be using "raw" when printing PostScript. Newer JetDirects have also the "auto" queue, which autodetects your printing protocol and just does the right thing.)

In SAM, LPD protocol is used when you choose "Add Remote Printer/Plotter" in the printer management menu.

When the network printer uses port 9100, it is usually using a solution which strongly resembles HP JetDirect. This protocol does not use queue names. It may provide more functionality (more detailed printer status information, for instance) than basic LPD.

To install a HP JetDirect network printer (or a work-alike from another manufacturer) to a HP-UX, you need a piece of software called "JetDirect printer installer for HP-UX". Go to HP support pages (http://www.hp.com/go/support) and search for "JetDirect". Then pick the "JD printer installer" package which is appropriate to your HP-UX version.

After installing that, you can use the "Add Network-based printer/plotter" option in SAM's printer management menu.