Hi all, We have Suse 9.3 server and few Win XP and Win 95 (don't ask) clients. We plan to get HP LaserJet 3390 All-in-one, print/scan/fax/copy, (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/hr/hr/sm/WF06a/10001977-10004075-10004079-100...). Printer understands HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP Postscript Level 3 emulation. For XP clients everything is OK, but there is not driver for 95 clients. I want to use only printers network interface. My idea for W95 users is to create raw printer on suse and to use some compatible driver for win 95 clients. This printer on suse will use port 9100 for printing. Maybe same could be accomplished without client driver at W95 side, but I am not sure. HP LJ 3390 supports port9100 (Direct Mode) and Line printer daemon (LPD). What option is better? Do I have some other options? Zoran
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 22:34, Zoran Ljubisic wrote:
Hi all,
We have Suse 9.3 server and few Win XP and Win 95 (don't ask) clients.
We plan to get HP LaserJet 3390 All-in-one, print/scan/fax/copy, (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/hr/hr/sm/WF06a/10001977-10004075-10004079-1 0004079-10004197-12245268.html).
Printer understands HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP Postscript Level 3 emulation. For XP clients everything is OK, but there is not driver for 95 clients. I want to use only printers network interface.
My idea for W95 users is to create raw printer on suse and to use some compatible driver for win 95 clients.
This printer on suse will use port 9100 for printing.
Maybe same could be accomplished without client driver at W95 side, but I am not sure.
HP LJ 3390 supports port9100 (Direct Mode) and Line printer daemon (LPD).
What option is better? Do I have some other options?
Zoran
Actually your plan is probably the best you can do these days. Since there are drivers for printers that are "close enough" for win95, creating a raw cups printer queue is a workable plan. The only machine that needs to actually know how to talk to the printer is linux. Your linux machine can still use the 9100 port, because cups will address that as DeviceURI socket:<ipaddress>:9100 When cups supports windows machines this is the normal way to do it. LPD is sort of old hat these days. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Andersen" <jsa@pen.homeip.net> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: 7. rujan 2006 8:45 Subject: Re: [SLE] HP LaserJet 3390 for Win 95 users On Wednesday 06 September 2006 22:34, Zoran Ljubisic wrote:
Hi all,
We have Suse 9.3 server and few Win XP and Win 95 (don't ask) clients.
We plan to get HP LaserJet 3390 All-in-one, print/scan/fax/copy, (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/hr/hr/sm/WF06a/10001977-10004075-10004079-1 0004079-10004197-12245268.html).
Printer understands HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP Postscript Level 3 emulation. For XP clients everything is OK, but there is not driver for 95 clients. I want to use only printers network interface.
My idea for W95 users is to create raw printer on suse and to use some compatible driver for win 95 clients.
This printer on suse will use port 9100 for printing.
Maybe same could be accomplished without client driver at W95 side, but I am not sure.
HP LJ 3390 supports port9100 (Direct Mode) and Line printer daemon (LPD).
What option is better? Do I have some other options?
Zoran
Actually your plan is probably the best you can do these days. Since there are drivers for printers that are "close enough" for win95, * Do you know what driver is "close enough" for HP LJ 3390 on win 95 machine? creating a raw cups printer queue is a workable plan. The only machine that needs to actually know how to talk to the printer is linux. * This printer has PS as printer language. Is it possible to use sam adobe ps print driver on w95 side to be able to print on this printer? Zoran
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