Printing : Setting up a queue to a HP Laserjet

Question:

How can a queue be set up to print to a Hewlett Packard Laserjet printer with a Jet direct card or Jet direct clone?

Answer:

TCPware's Terminal Server print services can be used to print using the following syntax:

$ INITIALIZE/QUEUE/PROCESSOR=TCPWARE_TSSYM/ON="host,port" qname

Replace "host" with the Internet address or host name of the printer and "port" with the port number on which the printer accepts incoming telnet connections for the print jobs. For example, to configure a TCPware queue called testprint to print to a printer at 10.10.10.2 which is listening on port 9100 do the following:

$ INIT/QUE/PROCESSOR=TCPWARE_TSSYM/ON="10.10.10.2,9100" TESTPRINT
$ START/QUE TESTPRINT

You should now be able to issue print commands to that queue. HP and some other printers typically accept telnet connections to port 9100 for printing. See your printer documentation to confirm this.