Direct Socket Printing - InfoPrint 6500 Series User Manual

Chapter 5
Ethernet Configuration for AIX 4
4. At the password prompt, press ENTER (since there is no default
password).
5. Change to the dest directory.
Syntax:
cd dest
6. List the contents of this directory using the dir command and determine
which destination/queue you would like to send the print job through.
Most likely, you will select d1prn for the PRN port.
7. Change to this destination directory.
Example:
cd d1prn
8. Change the mode to correspond with the type of file you are going to
print. By default, ASCII is set for text-only files, but if you need to print
both text and graphics, select binary using the bin command.
9. Place the file to be printed within this directory on the ethernet, so it can
be spooled and printed.
Syntax:
put filename
10. Close the FTP session, unless you have more jobs to print.
Syntax:
quit

Direct Socket Printing

Within TCP/IP environments, there are some setups which require the host to
print directly to a TCP port number on the ethernet, bypassing all of the higher
level destination/queue names. If you run into a setup which requires this, you
will need to define two parameters for a new print setup:
1. Ethernet IP address. The IP address or host name of the print server to
which you want to print.
2. Ethernet TCP port number. A pre-defined number for the I/O port on the
print server. 9100 is the default port number.
Though the host will be sending directly to a TCP port number on the
ethernetethernet, the port numbers are still mapped to destinations/queues in
case there is some type of special processing or logging to be done to the job.
However, the destination name is of no concern in this type of printer
definition. Only the two parameters mentioned above need to be defined for
printing to work.
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