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From: vishy@catinhat.Princeton.EDU (V. Visweswaran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Connecting an HP LJ III to an RC2030
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Date: 20 Jun 91 22:27:28 GMT
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We recently purchased an HP LJ III printer with 3 Mb of Ram and a PostScript cartridge 
installed. I have been trying to connect it up to our MIPS RC2030. I have it connected
through the parallel interface on the workstation as well as the printer. When I try
to send printing commands to the printer through /dev/lp, it registers the fact that
some data is being sent over, but then it does nothing. I am running the Berkeley
lpd and using lpr to print the files. The same happens when I try to print using the
SysV lp with the lpadmin running.  In the latter case, I tried to use the interface
for hp printers that is in /usr/spool/lp/model, but still it did not work.

The entry for lp in /etc/printcap looks like this:

lp|lp1|Our Line Printer, A426:\
	:LO=Epson,EQuad,A-426,CASL:\
	:lp=/dev/lp:\
	 :sh:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lp:\
	:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
	:af=/usr/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
        	:ty=psc

Is there something else that needs to be done to configure the printer for use
with the RC2030 ? When I used the same configuration with an IBM proprinter
( a dot matrix printer) it seems to work fine.  Has someone installed HP printers
for use with MIPS machines ? Any help would be appreciated.



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V. Visweswaran
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