Printing with print servers

[Ronald J Marchand]

This question is a little off topic.

I was experimenting from 5.0.6 to a Dlink DP300U print server.

I found that I could telnet 10.200.200.99 9100, type some lines of text,
close the connection and the text would be printed on the attached printer.

The I tried the following:
cat textfile | /usr/bin/netcat -h 10.200.200.99 -p 9100

Nothing printed and the printer did not indicate that any data was present.

I am just wondering "why it not print?"

Any clues??

Ron

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:44:15 -0500, "Ronald J Marchand"
<rojomar@covad.net> wrote:

>This question is a little off topic.
>
>I was experimenting from 5.0.6 to a Dlink DP300U print server.
>
>I found that I could telnet 10.200.200.99 9100, type some lines of text,
>close the connection and the text would be printed on the attached printer.
>
>The I tried the following:
>cat textfile | /usr/bin/netcat -h 10.200.200.99 -p 9100
>
>Nothing printed and the printer did not indicate that any data was present.
>I am just wondering "why it not print?"
>Any clues??
>Ron

The D-Link DP300u print server does NOT support HP emulation (port
9100) or printing directly to an IP socket. It only supports LPR/LPD.


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