HP 175X, 310X manual Setting up LPD on Windows NT/2000 systems, of the initial setup below

last step in the hardware installation procedure—done in step 1

of the initial setup below

Setup sequence:

1.Install hardware; power on the print server. Refer to procedure.

2.Configure TCP/IP parameters on the print server. Refer to summary of methods.

3.Find the driver for your printer and install it.

4.Create a TCP/IP port and connect it to the driver. You can use Microsoft LPR port, for example.

5.Do LPD setup procedure for the Windows or Macintosh client:

❍LPD on Windows NT or 2000 systems

❍LPD on Mac OS systems

Setting up LPD

on Windows NT/2000 systems

Note: Make sure you have done the LPD prerequisites.

LPD (Line Printer Daemon) setup involves setting up the print queues, creating a port for printing, and verifying the setup on the system. The procedure depends on the operating system:

●Windows NT 4.0 LPD setup procedure

●Windows 2000 LPD setup procedure

Reference on queues

In the procedure below you will set up a print queue for each printer or printer personality (PCL or PostScript) used on each system. Also, different queues are required for formatted and unformatted files. You can use the queue names listed in the following table.

raw	no processing
text	carriage return added
auto	automatic
binps	binary Postscript
	defined by user; optionally including

<user-defined>commend strings before and after the print data