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Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?

From Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer?
Date 2015-03-25 21:04 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mev7sd$it0$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <met94d$d6u$1@dont-email.me> <eud5ha98gfp5kpofpgtiuuji1p7lope8d6@4ax.com> <20150325180540.5fe7b534@jresid.jretrading.com>

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In comp.os.linux.misc Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:34:41 -0400
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:13:20 +0000 (UTC), noSpam@gmail.com declaimed
>> the following:
>> 
>> 
>> >Perhaps if I phone a Win-user, he can tell me if/where his system
>> >shows the printer's IP, and how to ask the office-girl to 'get it' -
>> >from her PC.
>> >
>>       Well, as I showed -- for me it's in the router's DHCP
>> allocation table. But that requires knowing the IP of the router
>> along with its login/password.
>> 
>>       Beyond that there are a number of protocols -- the printer may
>> broadcast its status for clients to pick up (need the appropriate
>> software running on the expected port to receive the broadcast), SNMP
>> may be able to ask what is out there... etc.
>> 
> Most large office printers today are fairly complex, contain a hard
> drive, take ages to boot and many run Linux... typically, the printer
> driver installation software will scan the network for one or more of
> its target printers.
> 
>> >And don't these printers have a simple mode, where they
>> >accept an ASCII string, like the old printers did?
>> >
>>       Getting much rarer, and likely only via serial connection
>> (where the device knows there is only one machine sending data)
> 
> The last one I was involved with was a Ricoh device, that used TCP/9100
> for 'raw' data, whatever that was. But it could be configured for
> several ports and protocols, including lpr and IPX.
> 

I have a Brother printer and it does the same, tcp/9100 needs to be
configured for whatever protocol you're using. 

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Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? noSpam@gmail.com - 2015-03-25 03:13 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-25 09:34 -0400
    Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-03-25 18:05 +0000
      Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-03-25 21:04 +0000
        Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 22:04 +0000
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-30 08:35 +0100
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-30 09:06 -0400
      Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-25 23:55 +0000
        Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-26 09:22 -0400
          Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-26 13:30 +0000
            Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-26 14:03 +0000
              Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-03-26 15:08 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 08:45 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-03-28 09:32 +0000
              Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 09:21 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-03-28 10:09 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 04:46 +0000
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-30 09:13 -0400
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-03-30 20:53 +0100
                Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-03-28 22:52 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-03-25 19:59 +0000
  Re: HOW2 mobile, headless-rPi connect to LAN-printer? John Davis <wa8yxm@arrl.invalid.net> - 2015-03-25 19:39 -0400

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