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From: spinkert@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Scott Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: parallel port on Series 400 machine
Summary: Configuring Parallel Port for Printer
Message-ID: <1148@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 91 16:19:34 GMT
References: <31143@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver
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In article <31143@hydra.gatech.EDU> jack@cc.gatech.edu (Tom Rodriguez) writes:
>
>	We have a series 400 HP workstation that we want to connect a
>laserjet III to.  The laserjet can use a serial or parallel port and
>the HP has a DB-25 port on the back labeled parallel.  However, there
>appears to no documentation on how to use a parallel port on it
>machine, i.e. major and minor device numbers.  Can i use the parallel
>port with the printer or am i screwed by HP once again?  Thanks for
>any help.

We have four HP9000/380's running HP-UX 7.05.  Two of those machines are
using the parallel port with printers.  The first is connected to an HP
Laserjet 2000, and the device file for it is configured as follows:

crw-r--r--   1 lp       lp        21 0x170000 t4fsa-gw  Jun 12 10:14 lp_2000

The other machine has a Laserjet III with postscript cartridge connected to
it, and it has an identical device file.

Note:  in order to make the parallel port operational, you must insure (rebuild)
that your kernel has parallel configured in from the dfile.

Hope this helps,


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