HP LaserJet problems

[Olaf Olson]

Kenneth,

I have a similar situation, with an Axis printer. Although it does 
support Mac printing, this is YDL, so forget the Mac side of things.

To make my printer (LJ6MP) work with the Axis print server connected to 
its parallel port, I needed two vitally important things, the IP address 
(or hostname, if it's in DNS or your /etc/hosts file), and the name of 
the logical printer, as established inside the DLink print server. 
You'll have to look up the information on how to print out the internal 
printer assignments on the DLink, either in the user's guide or on their 
website, to get the latter. I suspect it will also print out the IP 
address when you do that.

I then used the standard Printing System Tool and created a new printer, 
queue type: Networked UNIX (LPD) printer and filled in teh IP address as 
the Server, and the queue name (on the print server) LPT1, according to 
what I got from the configuration page printout.

 From there, I get prints whenever I want 'em!

I can't guarantee that the DLink functions the same way, but I'd bet it 
does. If you're into guessing, try LPT1 or AUTO for the queue name on 
the print server (The DLINK device). Otherwise, go the smart route and 
print out the config page.

Olaf

Kenneth Browne 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.
>