semi OT: CUPS and printservers
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Sat Nov 7 23:14:41 UTC 2009
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes:
> > Is anyone out there using CUPS with a printserver? I have a
> > Netgear PS-100, but any success story will probably help. It works
> > fine with Windows XP, but I can't find the magic formula to get it
> > working with CUPS.
> >
>
> Well, according to chapter 5 ("UNIX Printing using TCP/IP") in the PS-100
> reference manual, this printerserver understands (amongst other) the LPD
> protocol. The CUPS documentation have a description for LPD:
> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.4/network.html#LPD
> The PS-100 also supports DSI, sp you can use:
> socket://*address*:4010
> socket://*address*:4020
> socket://*address*:4030
>
> For the three logical printers it supports inthat mode.
socket://<ip addr>
worked fine.
Thanks immensely.
Robert Huff
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