[nflug] printing

David J. Andruczyk djandruczyk at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 28 12:14:27 EDT 2007


try point a web browser at the device 
i.e. http://ip_of_printer:631/

see if it has a mgmt web-page listing the printer queue name

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>   Anyone here know about print queue's? That is to say, how does
> one
> know what the printer is set too? Normally when I setup internet
> printing or network printing, I set it up like
> ipp://ipaddress:631/name
> where "name" is the network name of the printer, setup via the
> printers
> interface or web interface of the printer. Or I might print to
> the
> socket with socket://ipaddress:9100. A simple nmap of the ip
> address
> tells me what ports are open, etc.. Normally, I have no problems
> but
> today I sold a client a really nice Ricoh color laserjet ($399)
> and
> setup the socket printing no problem, but when I went to setup
> his
> internet printing, it kept failing and I was suspicious of the
> queue
> name because everything else checked out. I tried the name that
> was set
> on the printer in the printers config interface (web) but it
> wasnt
> working. I poked all through their manuals, etc., still could not
> see
> exactly what the trouble was. So, I called Ricoh (very helpful,
> got on
> the phone right away) and after telling them where I was getting
> stuck,
> the guy said try "printer" for the queue name, and voila, worked
> no
> problem. So I said to the guy, WHY DON'T THEY MAKE THIS CLEAR in
> the
> docs/manual/web interface/whatever??!! And he agreed that it is
> confusing.
> Now, my question is this. I hate when I can't dig under the hood
> (like
> with nmap) and find something out, like what this printer was
> expecting
> as a queue name (there was NOTHING about that queue name in the
> entire
> web interface). Is there a way I could scan (like with nmap) to
> see what
> the device wants the queue named? I have never seen before where
> it
> wasn't the "network" name of the printer, but this one was
> different.
> Any way to check this out so I'm not hunting it down in the
> future? TIA,
> Peter
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-- David J. Andruczyk


 
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