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Connect VAX using UCX to LaserJet
The Question is:
Can you easily connect a laserjet 4+ printer using a jetdirect card
with a preconfigured ip address on the printer. VAX is uing the latest
release of TCPIP.
What is the syntax.
Many thanks,
The Answer is:
Well, the laserjet has LPD support and support for "telnet" printing.
You have to decide which one you want to use. When you say, "VAX is
uing the latest release of TCPIP." I assume you mean UCX (aka. TCPIP
Svc's...). If you do then you can either set up an LPD queue pointing
to the laserjet or a telnet symbiont print queue.
Most customer with laserjets are using the telnet symbiont. Setting
the queues up is easy and is in the documentation. On your INIT/QUEUE
statement you need to do /PROC=UCX$TELNETSYM and
/ON="host-name-of-laserjet-printer:portnumber". To clarify the value
of the /On qualifier, it takes two parameters separated by a colon.
The first is the DNS name of the laserjet (or the IP address of the
laserjet) and the second is the port on which the laserjet is
listening. You need to find out from HP what port to use but I seem to
remember that 9001 is the telnet printing port.
Depending on the type of printing you need to do
(postscript,landscape...) you may need to create a device control
library with setup modules and or reset modules to get exact results
you want. At this point HP doesn't supply this stuff for VMS and so
the customers I have dealt with are all rolling their own. We have
just received a laserjet here so at some point (hopefully in the near
future) we will be going through this exercise after which time we
will have better info.
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