CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD

[Patrick Mahan]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan Coleman [mailto:editor at d3photography.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:03 AM
>To: Patrick Mahan
>Cc: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: Re: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>
>I keep getting garbage text when I connect to my Lanier here at work... an
>LD520C.
>
>I used to be able to print to it but never in color... not the end of the
>world but I want to be able to print to it again.
>
>On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Patrick Mahan wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:41 AM
>>> To: FreeBSD Questions
>>> Subject: CUPS and IPP/JD/LPD
>>>
>>> I have a printer that doesn't support IPP. The leasing agency wants to
>>> charge me $1400 to "install" the Postcript driver on it but I'm looking
>at
>>> another solution, if possible: CUPS.
>>>
>>> I have a MacBook and we have a number of iOS devices around the office
>here
>>> that people would love to be able to print from... but AirPrint requires
>an
>>> IPP-compatible printer.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to convert or translate IPP to either LPD or JetDirect?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>
>> Ryan,
>>
>> I use JetDirect with my Apple devices.  I print to a HP OfficeJet 7310
>all-in-one
>> with no problems.
>>
>> I had and older HP Color inkjet (930?) that was hooked up for a while to a
>Fedora
>> Core box that was using LPD that worked as well.
>>

Ryan,

What does the garbage text look like?  PCL?  or Postscript?  I'm not familiar with
the Lanier printers.

Patrick
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Patrick Mahan
Lead Technical Kernel Engineer
Adara Networks
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