John "Danger" Skelton writes:

> If the Xerox doucprint is anything like our Xerox 4090 you have to use
>  LPR/LPD to print to it (the 4090 is hung off a sun sparc station). We print
>  to it from both NP92 and from Spoolmate.

Having never seen a Xerox Docuprint printer (which makes me as much of an
expert as the next guy), John's comment would almost certainly be true if you
were printing to the printer using network printing (i.e., having the 10Base-T
or 10Base-2 connector plugged directly into the back of the printer
somewhere).

But, if the printer has a parallel port connector on it somewhere, so that you
can plug a PC into it and have the PC print through its LPT1, just as you
would any other printer, then what we have is a genuine "paradigm shift"

What an HP External JetDirect card does for you is convert the HP3000's
TCP/IP-based network printing protocol into what is effectively a PC, printing
through its LPT1 parallel connector to the printer. It's just that the
JetDirect card acts like a $230 PC.

If the Docuprint printer does not have a parallel connector on it, then
everything I've said should be immediately dismissed. But if it does, then I
am almost certain that an External JetDirect card will work well for you.

To make the HP3000's network printing work in such a circumstance, all that
you need do is insert the JetDirect card into your network (either through a
hub or in-line with your ThinLAN), assign it an IP address, configure a spool
file on the HP3000, and run a standard PC-to-printer parallel cable from the
JetDirect card to the Docuprint printer. Voila. You should be up and running.

Wirt Atmar