HP LaserJet problems

[Cian Duffy]

I'm in a hurry to get out to work so can't give a full walkthrough,
but I use a LaserJet 6M/P on a DLink print server with YDL4. You don't
need any extra drivers - its PCL6 and Postscript 2 in hardware. IIRC
the built in print configuration tools worked fine - you need the IP
address and the queue name to configure it

Cian

On Apr 11, 2005 9:17 AM, Kenneth Browne <kbrowne at alumni.umass.edu> wrote:
> I may be trying to do the impossible. I'm trying to print to an HP
> LaserJet 6L printer. It's a parallel port printer connected to the print
> server of my DLink wireless/ported router. My Mac/YDL machine is
> connected via an ethernet cable. (Wireless is  used by  2 Win  laptops
> in the house). DLink  offers no Mac/Linux support for the print server
> though the router works perfectly for Internet/LAN tasks. (DLink Model
> is 714P+). I've spent several hours trying variious configs, trying
> Linux printing solutions found on the HP site. (They offer something
> called HPLIP to support most inkjet and some laserjet printers under
> Linux. I used the yum instructions for Redhat Fedora due to its close
> YDL ties. After downloading and extracting the HPLIP tarball I got
> nowhere with
> $./configure --prefix=/usr
> $ make
> 
> login as su then
> 
> # make install
> # /etc/init.d/hplip restart
> # /etc/init.d/cups restart
> 
> I gather the install is supposed to create a directory /usr/share/hplip
> however no such directory exists on my computer.
> Then you are supposed to be able to add a printer via a broswer, to wit:
> 
> http://localhost:631  which brings up a gui which ends up in a
> non-working printer.
> 
> Has anyone got a solution to this problem. I've successfully printed
> with this HP LaserJet under an x86 Mandrake version of Linux a couple of
> years ago. Is the problem rooted in hardware incompatibility between Mac/HP?
> Thanks for any suggestions offered.
> 
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