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1738.0. "Open: any way to set up a DCPS print queue to use a TCP/IP connected printer?" by STAR::JKEENAN () Fri Apr 25 1997 13:18

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Name: Colin Butcher
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Hi,

Is there yet any way to set up a DCPS print queue to use a TCP/IP connected
printer? I'm not on a cluster. I want to use all the DCPS features that I'm used
to with LPS17s on a HPLj5M (duplex, n-up etc.). I can connect with LPR/LPD but
that only works OK 
just pumping a postscript file at the printer. It doesn't get all the DCPS
features of datatype conversion, n-up and so on.

The sample DCPS$STARTUP.COM implies there's a tcpip connection for clusters and
maybe non-clusters, but how do I get it to work? Licences are OK - using
DCPS-OPEN. I used to use LAT to a HPLj5, but the new Lj5M's network card doesn't
support LAT any more.


Thanks, Colin.

   DCPS does not currently suuport LPR/LPD printers -- DCPS Postscript
   is bi-directional, and LPR/LPD is not.

   A LATprint server or other reverse LAT is the appropriate connection
   for serial network printers.