Printer setup-Router

madcrutch · 03-09-2002, 11:21 PM

Can anyone help me with setting up a printer connected to a parallel port on a router. I have it set up in windows but I am not sure how to do it with linux. Do I set it up as a local or network printer? I have tried to put in the ip address of the router with no avail.

The printer is an hp deskjet. The router is an SMC barricade wireless with a serial and parallel port on the back.

Thanks in advance!!

madcrutch · 03-15-2002, 08:42 AM

HELP!!!

duaux · 03-17-2002, 06:17 PM

install the drivers on ur linux machine

set it up so it points to network printer, ip address ,etc.

lippo · 08-10-2002, 01:16 AM

I set mine up using magicfilter. I am running debian.As you are setting it up give the address of the router (probably 192.168.2.1) for the address of the remote machine and then edit the resulting printcap file so that rp is lpt1. The barricade manual gives you two lines in how to set up the printer under linux, but it DOES say that the name of the remote printer is lpt1. My printcap file looks like this:

lp|hplj6l|HP Laserjet 6L:\

:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l:rm=192.168.2.1:rp=lpt1:lpr_bounce:\
:sh

w#80

l#66

x#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/laserjet-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
(sorry about the formatting. I tried to cut and paste, but I couldn't fix it any better than this. all the info is there.)

However, once you are printing you will discover that you are getting an undesired blank page and a job trailer. editing your printcap will not fix that. This printcap already says not to do this. The stimulus for the extra pages is in the firmware of the Barricade router. I have been unable to fix this and SMC has been no help. Search in Newbies for "disabling banner" or something like that. You will find that others have this extra pages problem.

good luck

philip baratta

lippo · 09-05-2002, 09:02 AM

madcrutch, have you gotten your printer set up? How did you manage it?

nn538 · 08-29-2005, 01:51 PM

well, I see that these messages date from some years ago, bu anyway, even if Madcrutch never replied:
Lippo. THANX! I was busy for hours trying to get my printer working through CUPS and the parrallel port of Barricade SMC 7404 BRA modem/router, and your suggestion actually works!
Apparenntly what I did wrong was to try to install the printer at some http:// or some ipp:// adress. Just had to try the lpd address, that worked.

Device URI: lpd://192.168.4.1/lpt1

Thanx again, may the source be with you and such.