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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