Re: CUPS Nightmare

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:49:15AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
>  On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:16:21PM -0500, Bill Johnson wrote:
>  
>  > Thanks, Erwin, for the reply.
>  > 
>  > I have tried a couple of things based on the good responses from this 
>  > list.
>  > 
>  > I now have 2 queues defined on the server.  One is called HP841C and it is 
>  > intended to be used for printing from the server.  It is defined with the 
>  > correct driver for the HP841C printer.  The other queue on the server is 
>  > called HP841C_SHARED and it is set up as a raw queue.
>  
>  Why a raw queue?  I think you just need the one queue, and set it shared.
>  
>  On the laptop, or any client, there is no need to set a queue up.
>  Just enable remote queue browsing ("Automatically find remote shared
>  queues") with the Printing tool from the menu, and print directly to
>  those queues by name.
>  
>  For simple situations like this there is no need to use the web GUI.
>  The graphical tool is meant to be a simple replacement, covering the
>  most often-used functionality. (I'm aware there are large gaps for
>  more sophisticated needs.)
>  
>  Tim.
>  */ 
Because HP printers have a built in JetDirect interface and its queue
name is supposed to be raw. This works if the interface is external but
if it is internal I get similar errors unless I name the queue
something other than raw.


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