HP OpenVMS Systems

HP printers and TCP/IP (UCX) LPD?

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The Question is:

 
In your answer to "HP Deskjust on VMS", you said:
 
>Well, the laserjet has LPD support ...
>you can either set up an LPD queue
>pointing to the laserjet or a telnet
>symbiont print queue.
 
I did the latter successfully.  But I'm
curios about the former.  Could you be
more specific?  I found this in
ucx$lpd_startup.com:
 
$ IF P1 .NES. "CLIENT"
$ THEN
$       initialize/queue -
                /retain=error -
                /owner=[1,4] -
                /noenable_generic -
                /device=server -
                /process=ucx$lpd_smb -
                /protection=(s:e,g:r,w:w,o:d)  UCX$LPD_QUEUE
$       start/queue UCX$LPD_QUEUE
$ !
$ ! Enable the LPD service
$ !
$       DEFINE/USER SYS$OUTPUT NL:
$       DEFINE/USER SYS$ERROR NL:
$       UCX ENABLE SERVICE LPD
$ ENDIF
 
 
How do I use it?  Can I just add to it
/on="ip_address:port_number"?
What's P1?
 

The Answer is :

 
  Please skim through the TCP/IP Services (UCX) documentation.
 
  Three common approaches to communicating with printers are LPD/LPR,
  telnet, and DCPS "raw IP".  The former are used with "dumb" printers,
  while the latter is used with network Postscript printers.  (DCPS is
  the prefered interface for accessing Postscript printers, as it is
  designed for the expected bi-directional communications that occur
  between the host and the Postcript interpreter.  The other protocols
  typically lack this bi-directional communications capability.)
 
  Please search for "HP" and "LPR" here; you will find a variety of
  discussions of relevence to users of HP printers on OpenVMS systems
  and of the use of LPR/LPD -- the Wizard receives various HP printer
  questions and questions on LPR/LPD rather regularly.
 
  Two example questions that may be of interest here are referenced by
  the titles "telnet printing to HP printers?" and "TCP/IP (UCX) lpr
  setup?".
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 1-OCT-1998 )
     
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