Re: [WinMac] AppleTalk or NetWare for HPLJ5Si?

Tim Scoff(casper[at]nb.net)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:16:04 -0500

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Ask the CS group for the IP address of the printer. Find the Desktop
Printer Utility (installed by default in the Apple Extras folder) and
launch it. Create a new desktop LPR printer. Type in the correct IP
address, select the correct PPD file, and configure all of the
correct options (RAM installed, paper trays, etc...) for the printer.
It won't be perfect because there will be an error whenever you try
to print but the printer is busy with someone else's job that you
will have to hit OK for until the printer is ready for your job, but
it works extremely well and you'll be able to print from almost
anywhere in the world if you have a direct internet connection from
your office without a firewall.

>I am the lone (and brand new) Mac person in an all Wintel academic
>department. The building/department is ethernet wired for Internet
>access but computer services runs a NetWare server for file servers
>and printing.
>
>I have got onto the Internet via the ethernet network, but cannot
>print on the department's printer. Computer services says the
>printer -- a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 5Si -- would have to be
>configured for AppleTalk, which it isn't currently, and the
>configuration is unstable. I wouldn't know. But their response
>strikes me as odd: two floors up from me (in another department) is
>an HP 4000N that is AppleTalked. I can select this (and plenty of
>other printers around the university) from my Chooser, and could
>print if the other Department would let me (why would they?).
>
>So my question is twofold, what has to be done to get me to where I
>can print on this printer, and how do I convince CS to do what has
>to be done?
>

Tim Scoff, MCSE
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