[nmglug] "all-in-one" printer puzzler

[Tim Emerick]

Looks like your 5si comes standard with 4megs of memory.  Hardly enough for a complex print job.  The manual says it is upgradeable using (then) standard simms.  I would bet that you could find out what simms you need and get them used at Absolute Computing.  

I also have a 10mbs JetDirect MIO card that I could give you.  I don't have any more HP printers to use it on.

If you already have a jetdirect card on it then using it on linux is pretty trivial.  What you want to look for is "9100 printing" if using CUPS or LPR.  9100 of course being the TCP/IP port that jetdirect uses.

I used to have an old redhat box as a windows/samba printer server sharing about a dozen networked HP 3/4/5 printers to win98 machines.  I did away with it when we switched to XP since WindowsXP has it's own TCP/IP print monitor.

Feel free to contact me off-list if you are interested in that jetdirect card.  According to the docs it says your printer can support an MIO card.

Tim

----- Original Message ----
From: Lee Einer <Lee at dosmanosjewelry.com>
To: NMGLUG.org mailing list <nmglug at nmglug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:50:18 PM
Subject: Re: [nmglug] "all-in-one" printer puzzler


HP 5SI. Supposed to be a "jetdirect" but I can't get the thing to
network, either. Don't know what the RAM is, but it can't be much.

Lee

Tim Emerick wrote:
> Ahhh...Junk printer woes.  When I used to have a "junky" printer I found that it was actually economical (toner and time wise) to just send a PDF to Kinko's or another local printer.  I could then go pick up my large print jobs about an hour later.  After figuring toner costs and costs associated with hassle's I found the increase cost was actually rather measly.
> 
> FWIW, what kind of printer do you have?  Sometimes an increase in memory or a network card might speed things up.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lee Einer <Lee at dosmanosjewelry.com>
> To: NMGLUG.org mailing list <nmglug at nmglug.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:46:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [nmglug] "all-in-one" printer puzzler
> 
> 
> OK, answered my own question.
> 
> The Linux Box had a print job running to another printer (on a parallel
> printer port) and for some reason this was blocking the PC and the
> scanner from talking to one another.
> 
> Sadly, our laser printer is such a junker that when we run flyers with
> graphics it can take us a day or more to run a hundred pages. So we will
> have to plan our scanning around this.
> 
> Lee
> 
> Lee Einer wrote:
>> I hooked up an "all-in-one" printer (Epson CX6400 usb printer and
>> scanner) to a PC running Mepis 6.0 at our local Peace & Justice center
>> recently. The printer works flawlessly. The scanner is another story.
>>
>> First time around, the Scanner autodetected and worked great, even
>> scanning into OpenOffice documents without a hitch. But the second time
>> I fired up the PC, the damn thing would not work and I have had buzzard
>> luck getting it to work since.
>>
>> The device is read at the USB port. xsane-find-scanner detects the
>> scanner immediately. But scanimage -L simply hangs, even if I run it as
>> root, and neither xsane nor scanimage will activate the scanner.
>>
>> The all-in-one unit has an option for either scan to memory card, scan
>> to PC or scan to e-mail. The scanner will not accept any option now
>> except scan to memory card.
>>
>> The fact that it worked the first time out tells me that the problem is
>> not an issue of configuration of the PC. But what is causing the problem
>> and how do I fix?
>>
>> Lee
>>
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