Trudeau, James L ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Howdy,

: The objective is to print to HP 256x type printers attached to a LAN via Jet
: Direct boxes from both our 3000
: and our 9000.  We've got the 3000 doing the deed with Netprint from
: Minisoft, external Jet Direct boxes and
: a serial to paralell interface box.  Enter the 9000.

: The 9000 sysadmin guy has been doing some testing and can get some sort of
: connection, that is the
: 9000 "sees" the printer and will print some status info, but that's as far
: as it goes.  The 9k guy tells
: me it sees the JD card and thinks it is a Laser Jet and tries to speak
: Postscript to it, which the 2567b
: refuses to co-operate with.

: Anyone got a 9000 talking to a 256x in this fashion?  Got any tips?
: Printers gonna be the death-of-me yet.

: Jim Trudeau

You have two choices. The first is to have the HP9000 treat the Jetdirect
box as a remote system and use lpr to print to it using the "text" queue.

The second choice is to down load the latest Jetadmin software from HP and
use the dumbprinter/plotter configuration.  This will turn off all the
LaserJet PCL/Postscript stuff.  You may need to make modifications to
model script for the specifice printer involved.  I used this to get a
Printronix printer running on a JetDirect when all other options failed.

Good luck,

Chuck Shimada
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Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA