Donna asks:

> one solution that was suggested is to configure 'lp' as a
>  network device (it would actually be 'pointed' to one of our
>  linejet printers).  that makes me nervous....  having lived
>  thru 'oh look, network printing crashed the system --
>  again!', i'm not real keen on having lp be a network
>  device.  i suppose, though, if properly handled (like
>  throwing in a well-placed 'spooler;openq' and coupling the
>  outfence for lp with the start/stopnet procedures) it might
>  actually work.
>
>  so....i wondering -- is anyone else doing this?  is there
>  something really bad i'm overlooking?  does anyone else have
>  some good suggestions?          - d

That's exactly what we do, and we've never had a moment's trouble with it.
LDEV 6, 300 and 306 are all directed to the same IP address. I've included
below our relevant SYSGEN entries and our NPCONFIG file. Devices LP, 6 and
306 are generally used for PCL printing. Device 300 is used almost
exclusively for PostScript. The actual printer is a LJ4000TN.

Wirt Atmar

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 LDEV:     6  DEVNAME:                    OUTDEV:        0   MODE:

   ID: HP2567B                            RSIZE:        66   DEVTYPE: LP

 PATH: 56/52.8.0                          MPETYPE:      32   MPESUBTYPE:  9

CLASS:

 LDEV:   300  DEVNAME:                    OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
OS
   ID: HPTCPJD                            RSIZE:       128   DEVTYPE: PP

 PATH: NONE                               MPETYPE:      32   MPESUBTYPE:  0

CLASS: NETLP    LP       LP1


 LDEV:   306  DEVNAME:                    OUTDEV:        0   MODE:
OS
   ID: HPTCPJD                            RSIZE:        66   DEVTYPE: PP

 PATH: NONE                               MPETYPE:      32   MPESUBTYPE:  0

CLASS: NETLP

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:print npconfig.pub.sys
global (message_interval = 60
        banner_trailer = FALSE
        pjl_supported = FALSE
        jam_recovery = FALSE)

6      (network_address = 192.168.1.100)

300    (network_address = 192.168.1.100)

301    (network_address = 192.168.1.110)

302    (network_address = 192.168.1.120)

303    (network_address = 192.168.1.130)

304    (network_address = 192.168.1.140)

305    (network_address = 192.168.1.150)

306    (network_address = 192.168.1.100
        pjl_supported = TRUE)

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