[cups.general] HP 4600 + CUPS + SAMBA

[Alvaro Aguilera]

I've installed the HP Internet Printer Connection, but when I enter the
URL of the printer on the cups server (ipp://server/printers/my_printer
or http://server:631/printers/my_printers) an error occurs telling that
the printer cannot be contacted...

Any idea about this? Is there any trick to mak cups works with HP IPC?

Thanks!


El mié, 19-05-2004 a las 12:04, Helge Blischke escribió:
> Alvaro Aguilera wrote:
> > 
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > My company recently bought an HP 4600DN (laser color) printer, the
> > printer has a NIC included and I installed it on a Linux (SUSE 8.1)
> > spooler that works with CUPS 1.1.15 and Samba 2.2.5. The printer is
> > shared as a raw printer with Windows NT machines.
> > 
> > I've tried using all the drivers provided by HP: pcl3, pcl5, ps but with
> > all of them I have had trouble. The one that seems to work better is the
> > pcl5 driver but the users still complains about several small but
> > annoying issues when they print from Acrobat Reader of Microsoft Office.
> > For example not being able to print medium-sized PDFs, problems with of
> > alineation, or with the orientation of the paper, etc. etc.
> > 
> > Is there any way to make this printer work well in my platform?
> > 
> > I am trying to avoid the use of an NT spooler...
> > 
> Try configuring the printer with CUPS and then exporting it to your
> NT boxes using the cupsaddsmb utility or install the printer
> instances on your NT boxes using the IPP port (on NT, you probably
> have to install some IPP support package in this latter case).
> 
> Helge