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X-Original-Article-From:	Peter Greuter <pgreuter AT teaser DOT fr>
Subject:	Re: Personal Netware and HP printer with Jetdirect network card
From:	shadow AT krypton DOT rain DOT com (Leonard Erickson)
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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:50:32 PST
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In mail you write:

> I just found an abandoned HP Laserjet 4MPlus with his network 
> card in my street. He is working perfectly with the parallel 
> interface and stops to complain about the interface module not 
> ready when I connect him to my little PNW network.
>
> I would like to know if somebody on this list had tried to 
> integrate such a printer directly to this type of network?
>
> I did some investigations on Google and www.hp.com, but on all 
> places they talked only about Netware networks. I think I would 
> need also the program  JETADMIN.EXE to set-up the printer from 
> the network.

I tried the same sort of search when I got a good deal on an Intel
Netport. It's a box that has one ethernet port, two parallel ports and
a serial port. You can hang two parallel and one serial printers off of
it.

But you have to have a *server* in the network for a networked printer
to work. The server "collects" the print jobs and keeps them se[erated
and then sends them to the printer for processing when they are comple.

Personal Netware is a peer-to-peernetwork, and can't do that. Or at
least nobody has written the required drivers.

> I would like very much not to add a parallel printer port to my 
> main computer and to use the printserver(?) of the Jetdirect 
> card.

The server requires something to maintain the print *queue*. The
computers dumps jobs into the queue, which "spools" them until they are
complete. Then the completed job go to the server. You've got the
server, but not the spooler..

-- 
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
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