Netatalk and AppleTalk Printers

[Jeroen Diederen]

Joe Villari wrote:

> > Sorry I could have said it in one go...
> > your Device URI is
> > pap://HP LaserJet 4MP
> > I don't know if that works with these spaces...otherwise you have to
> > give it another name like Joeprinter under MacOS
>
>
> I think this is the problem, I've tried evrything I know of this point
> with the address. CUPS says the printer is idle and accepting jops, I
> send the test page and all seems fine and it just does not print.
>
> I have NO idea how to change my printer name. On Mac OS I went to
> chooser, selected setup, printer info, see the name of the printer. I
> opened the ppd file and found where the printer name was, edited it read
> 4MP and this didnot change the name of the printer in the chooser. I did
> update info from the chooser and restarted to be sure. Changed the name
> of the ppd to 4MP still the same result. Searched google, macworld and
> HP's site for a howto or any documentation on how to do this; none
> found. I did find several colleges that renamed their 4MP on the network
> but can't find out how to do so.
>
> If you or any one knows how, I'd be one HAPPY camper.
>
> I even tried editing the print.conf and printcap files to read HP
> LaserJet 4MP and "HP LaserJet 4MP", read some ldp docs about needing to
> enclose in quotes if there were spaces in the name, still no good.
>
> So close.
>
> Thanks
> Again
> Joe
>
>
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I got this printer from a friend, I don't know how he gave the name to 
the printer. I think you need some extra software under macOS to give it 
another name I presume.