HP 310X, 175X Setting up LPD LPR Printing, lpq Line Printer Queues Displays print queues, lprm

Setting up LPD (LPR) Printing

for HP Jetdirect 175x external print server/Internet connector for USB and HP Jetdirect 310x external print server/Internet connector for

USB

The HP Jetdirect print server contains an LPD (Line Printer Daemon) server module to support LPD printing. Other terms for these services are “LPR (Line Printer Request)”, from the perspective of the printing clients, “BSD printing”, and “Print Services for UNIX”. These refer to the protocol and programs associated with line-printer spooling services that may be installed on various TCP/IP systems. These systems include Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Mac OS.

The LPD programs include the following:

Program

Name

Purpose of Program

lpr Line Printer Request: Queues jobs for printing

lpq Line Printer Queues: Displays print queues

lprm

Line Printer Remove: Removes jobs from print queues

lpc Line Printer Control: Controls print queues

Line Printer Daemon: Scans and prints the files if the specified printer is connected to the system. If the

lpd specified printer is connected to another system, this process forwards the files to an lpd process on the remote system where the files are to be printed.

Prerequisites:

●An operating system that supports LPD printing—any host implementation of LPD that complies with the RFC 1179 document

●“Administrator” access to your system

●Printer properly connected to the network through the print server —done in step 1 of the initial setup below

●IP parameters configured on the print server —done in step 2 of the initial setup below

●Read the hardware address (also called MAC, LAN, or station address) of the print server, either from a label on the print server device or from the configuration page you print as the