Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com> typed:
:At 08:44 PM 2/15/00 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
:>  An HP LaserJet will accept LPD connections. Just set it up as a remote
:>printer in /etc/printcap and start lpd. 
:Cool! I guess our JetDirect cards were so old that they didn't have that.
:(One was bought in about 1993, the other about 1997). They required a
:special daemon running on Solaris, or a special driver on Win9x or WinNT. I
:would have dearly loved to eliminate the need for another NT (or
:Sparc-Solaris) machine... These days, my printer speaks Centronics (sic),
:so I'm not current wrt JetDirect anymore.

Later versions have even more features.  Last year I updated the firmware
in the HP4000N's here (JetDirect J3111A) and can now also FTP files to it,
which is handy with NetBSD boxes on the other side of the firewalls and
only MSWin on the printer side.  I could start using a2ps again.

Regards,
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