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I have an ancient and venerable HP Deskjet 1120C connected to LPT1 on my |
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desktop system running Gentoo. This printer is supported in CUPS, and |
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works properly (except for minor Gnome weirdness) from apps on the |
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immediate system - Firefox, OpenOffice, etc. |
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I want to access this printer from other computers on our LAN, including |
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the Windows XP Pro system hosted on the same box using VMware. |
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According to |
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<http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Native_Windows_Printing_with_CUPS/Samba> I should be able to do this without involving samba, assuming I can direct printing requests to the proper URI. Both Windows and Linux support configuring printers this way, rather than as CIFS shares, and since I don't need to upload drivers to the printer (the original drivers won't work in XP) all I really need to do is connect to the printer over the LAN as a raw device and use client-side drivers. |
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The documentation at |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#remote_usage> suggests |
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that I use one of the following for the printer URI on other systems: |
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* "ipp://hostname/printers/printername" which in my case would be |
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"ipp://vishnu.fmp.com/printers/hpdj_1120c (or I can substitute |
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the LAN IP address for the hostname) |
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* "http://hostname:631/ipp/queue" which appears to translate to |
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"http://vishnu.fmp.com:631/ipp/queue" with no specification for |
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the printer in the URI. Since the hpdj_1120c doesn't have a |
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queue specified in cups, I assume this URI should be used |
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literally. |
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Neither of these works on our LAN-connected Windows boxes and the |
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documentation I find on this is very sketchy. Windows doesn't |
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understand the "ipp" URI scheme, apparently, and I'm missing something |
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in second URI. Should I be substituting something for "queue"? |
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Anyone done this who can help me? |
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