Lpd Setup Overview; Step 1. Setting Up Ip Parameters; Step 2. Setting Up Print Queues - HP Jetdirect J7974E Administrator's Manual

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The LAN hardware address (or station address) of the print server. This address is printed with
print server status information on the HP Jetdirect configuration page and is of the form:
HARDWARE ADDRESS: xxxxxxxxxxxx
where x is a hexadecimal digit (for example, 0001E6123ABC).
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An IP address configured on the HP Jetdirect print server.

LPD Setup Overview

The following steps are necessary to configure the HP Jetdirect print server for LPD printing:
1. Setting up IP parameters.
2. Setting up print queues.
3. Printing a test file.
The following sections provide detailed descriptions for each step.

Step 1. Setting Up IP Parameters

To set up IP parameters on the HP Jetdirect print server, refer to

Step 2. Setting Up Print Queues

You must set up a print queue for each printer or printer personality (PCL or PostScript) you use on your
system. Also, different queues are required for formatted and unformatted files. The queue names
text and raw in the following examples (see rp tag) have special meanings.
Table A-2 Supported Queue Names
raw, raw1, raw2, raw3
text, text1, text2, text3
auto, auto1, auto2, auto3
binps, binps1, binps2, binps3
<user-defined>
The line printer daemon on the HP Jetdirect print server treats data in the text queue as unformatted
text or ASCII, and adds a carriage return to each line before sending it to the printer. (Note that the
actual observed behavior is that a PCL line termination command (value of 2) is issued at the beginning
of the job.)
The line printer daemon treats data in the raw queue as formatted files in PCL, PostScript, or HP-GL/
2 languages and sends the data without change to the printer.
Data in the auto queue will be automatically processed as text or raw, as appropriate.
For the binps queue, the PostScript interpreter interprets the print job as binary PostScript data.
ENWW
no processing
carriage return added
automatic
binary PostScript
(Full-featured print servers only) Queues are defined by the user; may optionally
include command strings before and after the print data.
TCP/IP Configuration.
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