Jim writes:

> We are replacing all of our well worn HP LaserJets, of various marks and
> models, with three Lexmark T632s.  I have got the test printer working
> with Linux and with MS-Windows but I am having a problem with getting the
> HP3000 to print to it.

The problem is almost certainly the fact that your printer doesn't have an HP 
network interface card in it. The HP3000 doesn't talk to non-HP network 
cards. We have a large number of "foreign" printers here, and we have had to 
put external HP JetDirect EX Plus print server boxes in front of all them in order 
to get them to work. In fact, we've even had to do it for some older HP 
printers.

The external JetDirect box acts as an intermediary. It connects to your LAN's 
RJ45 connector and to the printer via a Centronics parallel interface.

However, even this is not guaranteed to work. We've recently been buying 
Xerox 6180 color lasers to replace our LaserJets, and I've done everything I 
can think of to make them work with the HP3000, but no joy. They've done 
something so that this solution no longer works, although it has worked 
extremely well with all of the older versions of the Xerox color lasers, so be 
warned. There may be no solution.

Wirt Atmar

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