[CentOS] HP OfficeJet Printing

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Sat, January 2, 2016 5:21 am, Nux! wrote:
> Why go through all this trouble when you can connect the printer to the
> network directly and be done with it?

I for one do not like clients sending print jobs to printer directly.
Suppose you have many clients. And one of them hits some PS implementation
bug in the printer, to recover from which you have to power cycle printer.
And as print job didn't finish successfully, client re-sends it to printer
after you power cycle printer, which knocks down the printer again. It
will take a lot of effort to find _that_ client. I've been trough this
once.

I usually set up cups on UNIX or Linux (with cups-lpd, I've found it more
robust than having clients using ipp). Cups talks to printers via
jetdirect. Printers are configured to not accept connections from anything
but print server. Clients connect to print server via LPD. On Windows
clients I first enable two LPD related services, thus I can make Windows
talk to cups server its native (LPD) language.

Of course, if you have one machine talking to printer, then what Nux
suggests makes perfect sense, why go into trouble.

I hope, this helps.

Valeri

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chris Olson" <chris_e_olson at yahoo.com>
>> To: "CentOS Mailing List" <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Friday, 1 January, 2016 16:29:17
>> Subject: [CentOS] HP OfficeJet Printing
>
>> There has been a bit of grumbling recently about HP printer capability
>> in one of our smallest prototyping Labs.  We have a single GigE switch
>> connecting a Windows 7 machine and a Dell/CentOS-6 machine.  The CentOS
>> machine also has connectivity via another network.  Currently, only the
>> Windows 7 machine has been setup for printing on our HP OfficeJet 8615.
>> Our Samba effort on the CentOS system has not been successful so we use
>> Cygwin and ftp to move files to the Windows 7 system for printing. Being
>> able to print directly from the CentOS 6 system would be most
>> convenient.
>>
>> Software supporting the HP OfficeJet Pro 8615 is apparently available
>> as indicated in the links and other information below.  We also see
>> that hplip was apparently part of an installation or update performed
>> on the CentOS 6 Dell machine at some point in time.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/?source=typ_redirect
>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
>> The current version of the HPLIP solution is: 3.15.11.
>>
>> [user at dell ~]$ uname -a
>> Linux dell 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:19:08 2015\
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> [user at dell ~]$
>> [user at dell ~]$ rpm -qa hplip
>> hplip-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64
>> [user at dell ~]$
>> [user at dell ~]$ which hp-setup
>>
>> /usr/bin/hp-setup
>>
>> Using this open source software seems easy enough, but we have concerns
>> about printing from the Windows 7 machine if the CentOS 6 system is
>> setup
>> for printing.
>>
>> Is there any significant possibility that printer setup or printer use
>> on the CentOS 6 system will negatively impact printing functionality
>> on the Windows 7 machine?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help or advice, and Happy New Year.
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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