DeskJet and JetDirect

Bill Gurley (bgurley@utk.edu)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:38:11 -0500

I have two questions related to printing ("plotting") from
vnmr. There are two separate issues, and I would appreciate
it if anyone has already fought these battles and could
steer me in the right direction:

1. One of my faculty members bought an HP Deskjet 1120C,
which is one of the more expensive color DeskJets (about
$500). The reason we bought this model is that it supports
11 X 17 paper. Have any of you successfully configured this
printer in vnmr for printing on the large format paper? The
only close "printer type" that shows up in the printer
utility is a Deskjet 300C.

2. We want to connect the above printer to an HP JetDirect
external print server which has three parallel ports. We
are already successfully printing to a laser printer on port
1, but the new printer is on port 2 of a different print
server. I successfully set up the printer in unix, using
HP's jetadmin software for Solaris, and I can send text
files to the printer. But it appears that vnmr doesn't even
utilize the unix printer setup?? Furthermore, in vnmr I
cannot see a way to specify which port to use on the
three-port print server: just the IP name of the print
server.

Thanks for any suggestions.

-- 
-Bill-

Bill Gurley, Supervisor of Technical Services bgurley@utk.edu Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville ph:865-974-3145