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rsamery - Jul 19, 2005 - 4:45 pm

I have been trying to print to an HP 6mp and have installed hpijs. The printer continues to stop all print jobs on it's own even after I start them manually, it won't stay on.

gsahli - Jul 19, 2005 - 5:11 pm

Hi Robert,
Some questions so I can help:
How is the printer connected? I think the LJ 6MP postscript driver is included in Panther. Was there a particular reason you went with hpijs? When you installed hpijs, did you also install ESP ghostscript?

Thanks.

rsamery - Jul 19, 2005 - 5:55 pm

I did install both ESP ghostscript and hpijs, the printer is on a network print server (D-Link Di 704p) and I understand that Panther did not have the drivers for this network. The printer is connected through the parallel port.

I have another Mac running 10.2 without difficulty printing on the network

Thanks gsahli.

gsahli - Jul 19, 2005 - 6:59 pm

I'm glad you installed hpijs and ESP ghostscript anyway, because it gives you more options to print to this printer, but the postscript driver "HP LaserJet 6p/MP" (in Panther) should work. What protocol are you using to ADD in Printer Setup - I guess IP printing > LPR should work. You need to enter the print server's queue name -- LPT1 or LPT1_TEXT should work.

rsamery - Jul 20, 2005 - 1:46 am

The was as you suggested and I haven't changed that. I had named the print queue "lp on 192.168.0.1", and have now changed that to "lpt1 192.168.0.1".

The results did not change though, anything else?

gsahli - Jul 20, 2005 - 8:29 am

There will be two different queue names here.
The queue name you enter in the ADD Printer dialog must be the specific queue name _on the server_ - it is hardware-specific - you should try exactly what I gave you.
Your Mac will have a queue name (that you can name) which refers/points to the printer after you ADD it.