Re: [WinMac] JetDirect names change: Mac printing

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Fri, 14 May 1999 12:40:57 -0400

How is the JetDirect getting its AppleTalk name? Are you using the Apple
Printer Utility? If not, that may be all you need to do, use that program
to set the name.

At 08:53 AM 5/14/99 -0500, Parker, Douglas wrote:
>I've read the FAQ--this isn't in it.
>
>I have a mix of Macs and WIN95/NT systems in an environment with NT servers.
>Printers are connected to HP JetDirects. WIN systems print through the NT
>print server to the printers--no problems there. Our Macs had been printing
>through NT also, but that's been disabled--now the Macs print directly to
>the printer via AppleTalk through the JetDirects.
>
>But we're having big problems with the naming of the JetDirects: If the NT
>queue is called ABC, and if the JetDirect is named ABC (SFM is not enabled
>on the NT print server--I'm pretty sure that's right--the Mac output goes
>directly to the JetDirect and never touches the NT queue), then after a
>period of time (weeks) the JetDirect renames itself to either one of two
>things:
>
> 1) ABC1
>or
> 2) HP LaserJet Series n
>
>where n is some integer. The value for n never stays consistent from printer
>to printer. It's obviously picking up the next integer available as it
>resets its name on the fly, or as you power cycle the printer.
>
>We need to pin down a permanent name for our printers so our Macs can print.

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