[cups.general] cups and apple laserwriter 16/600
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Jan 20 04:04:04 PST 2005
Anonymous wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:58:56AM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > > > and just to be absolutely sure, you have 'mymachine' in either your
> > > > DNS or your /etc/hosts file?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > yes 'mymachine' is in /etc/hosts
> >
> > try to do a telnet to your printer, and see what are the printer's
> > settings wrt network printing
> >
> > bye
> >
> > Jerome Alet
> >
>
> - no problem with " ping myprintet"
> - no problem with " telnet myprinter 515"
> - no problem with 'settings of myprinter"
>
> LaserWriter 16/600 PS
> TCP/IP Interface Information
>
> Interface Status : Ready
> PostScript Banner Page : Disabled
> IP Address : xxx.yyy.zzz.aa
> Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway : xxx.yyy.zzz.bb
> Timeout Checking : Enabled
> Ethernet Address : 09:01:08:05:7D:99
>
> - but when I add myprinter and try to print a testpage, I have : (loglevel debug)
> Remote host did not respond with command status byte after 300 seconds!
>
> I don't understand !!!
Are you sure the Apple LaserWriter speaks LPD ?
I suspect it will rather speak PAP, or perhaps AppSocket (that is, try
one of the pap backends or
the socket backend).
Helge
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