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by teke

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I have installed a HP laser on as a remote. I have set the ip on the printer. I need to tell SCO UNIX what the printers ip is. How???

I'm using Xwindows, but I can also use black screen script.

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by cpfeiffe

Telling SCO Unix what the printer IP is can be done in the hosts file by associating the printer IP to its configured name. I don't think this will complete your mission, though. I'm not familiar with SCO, but do have Solaris, HP-UX and AIX background. From that general Unix standpoint I would say that you can't print to a networked printer without an additional software tool to handle the spooling and printer communication. Basically, I don't think you are able to print direct to IP straight out of the box on SCO Unix. JetAdmin from HP is a great tool to download for free. This is easy to install and relatively easy to configure after a couple of uses. If that won't do it OSM makes a product called COSMOS that will do it, but that is at fee. Good luck.

by gazz

HP Jet directs are easy in SCO.
First: Put the ip address and the name of the printer in the hosts file.
example of /etc/hosts.

127.0.0.1 localhost
190.1.1.2 hpprinter

In scoadmin there is a printers option.
In the printers option there are (if I remember correctly) 4 sub menus. The first sub option has to be done the first time you create a jet-direct printer. Only do this option once.
Press I for install and it will throw you into the second option.

wait a sec.....
go to
http://www.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?105666
this will explain everything.

by cavedweller

There are two internal print queues on an HP jetdirect interface, raw and text. You want to edit your printcap file and specify:

rm=printername #use printers name from hosts or dns

rp=raw #for postscript queue
or
rp=text #for ascii-only queue

Be sure to make the usual entries for a network printer (null device, spooling dir, etc.)

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