IP printing in leopard

[jxr]

Hello,

I have an Epson stylus photo 870 hooked up to a print server and it works just fine under Tiger, with the Gimp driver. I got my son a new macbook with leopard and after downloading the gutenprint drivers, and setting up the printer the operation fails after printing 100% saying that the printer is busy, and then keeps retrying.

Is it possible to get the driver from tiger to work in leopard, and if so how ?
OR
is there a fix to this problem ?

Thanks,
Joe.

[SGilbert]

Leopard broke my Epson print driver. I went to Epson.com and downloaded new driver. All's well now.

[gsahli]

I feel fairly certain this isn't a driver problem but a setup one. The Gutenprint driver is a CUPS driver which is required in order to use the CUPS built-in IP print protocols.
It's also important to know which IP protocol to use with your model of print server, and to know what details are important. The IP > LPD and IPP protocols are international standards and both REQUIRE a queue name (also called port name) in order to identify the physical port that the printer is connected to (because the concept of print server means many printers can be served at one IP address). You have most likely not entered a queue name in Printer Setup. You can find it in the print server manual, especially if there are setup instructions for unix or Windows NT- where there's less effort to hide details from users.

If your print server supports HP Jetdirect (also called TCP/IP raw or port 9100 or socket printing), that one doesn't use queue name, because it uses a port number (9100) to distinguish ports.

HTH

[jxr]

Thats exactly how I have it set up from my linux box, printing on port 9100.

I have changed the protocol to LPD and now everything works just fine in leopard.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[fun4go]

Sorry for jumping in on an old thread. I am trying to print to my offices network printer (HP2300N). I have put in the proper IP address using LPD and chosen the HP2300 driver but I still get the "busy" message. What can I do?
Thanks.

[gsahli]

The queue name is required for built-in jetdirect network cards for the LPD protocol. It can be "ps" for a postscript-only queue/printer; "auto" to allow the card to accept both postscript and PCL; or "raw" to allow the card to pass through anything without checking the input.

If they've set a unique queue name in the jetdirect card, you can get that from printing a config page.

IP printer > Jetdirect is the preferred protocol choice because it gives bidirectional comm back to the computer. (No queue name is used for HP Jetdirect protocol)

[fun4go]

Thanks for your input. I'm not 100% sure I understand everything you wrote but I will go back to the office to play with it. I know that when I have set-up WinTel pc's to print on the network, I set up an IP port with the printer's ip address and it uses port 9100 and a "PCL" driver. Does this info help?

[gsahli]

port 9100 equals HP Jetdirect protocol on OS X.
The driver from HP (included in OS X) is a postscript one.