[Sussex] Tektronix 550 colour laser

[Iain Stevenson]

.. not exactly the same but I have a Tektronix Phaser 740 colour laser 
printer which works fine (eventually - it was tough going) under linux.  I 
have my linux box set as the print server.

I just point my web browser at the IP address of the printer and the status 
page appears immediately - so it's using port 80.  I'm using lprng to drive 
the printer - mainly because the guy who wrote lprng is very helpful and 
seems to know a lot about Phaser quirks.

  Iain



--On Wednesday, August 6, 2003 11:27 am +0100 David Chapman 
<dokterdave at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Is anyone familiar with this printer. I have 1 that has been sitting
> under my  table for nearly a year not working because of some errors when
> starting up. Got round to having a look at it  this week and have fixed
> and/or jury rigged  it to print.
> I don't need to say it works fine in Windows 2K do I.
> Anyway it has a network port (Phaser share) so it communicates via tcp/ip
> and  is a post script printer so it should work under Linux.
> The printer has its own web server for admin tasks and had an ip address
> via  dhcp which I changed to a static one.
> But the printer setup tool in SuSE 8.2 can not see it.
> My HP laser5 is setup for printing over the network through a jet direct
> card  (192.168.0.253:9100) so I have half a clue as to what I am doing.
> Does the Phaser share use the same port ie 9100
>
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