At 01:32 PM 10/30/97 -0500, Kevin Newman wrote re my query about
non-JetDirect cards as 3000 IP printers:

>Sure,  we use the same third party product that we bought before HP
decided to
>put this function into MPE.  The third party products will allow you to
setup a
>printer by IP address and port.  Since the JetDirect card is using a
specific
>port, a small change in functionality might be all that is needed to allow
MPE
>to print to any of the other printers, and LPD etc.
>
>Kevin Newman
>

The problem as I see it is that you specify id=HPTCPJD in IOCONFIG, which
(I assume) tells the spooler something like "When you query the printer via
IP, it is going to send back HPTCPJD as an identifier" (Any IP gurus want
to verify this for me?).  I also assume that non-JetDirect cards will
return some other identifier, or non at all.  I'd like to  a)  find out
what id is returned by non-JetDirect cards; and b) have IOCONFIG support
this id.  Right now, it seems that anything other than HPTCPJD results in
***error*** This device is not supported.




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