[nflug] printing

[Cyber Source]

David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> 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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hmmm interesting. Will check it out when I set it up, just put it back
in the box.
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