please help, cups and network printers (solved)

[IRQsRFun]

I have a network printer that has postscript enabled, but I am unable to find a guide to set up cups to talk to this printer. The closest thing that I can find tells me to change /etc/cups/client.conf to add a server name and an IP address. Unfortunately, this seems to only work if the printer also has a cups server on the same port (correct me if I am wrong). I can browse to the printer with konqueor. I plan to have the printer off when it is not in use and I still do a few things with my windows machine, so I do not want to use the USB or parallel port connection. If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know.

Printer: Brother HL-5250 DN

[rmh3093]

[d2_racing]

For more information, you can read this doc : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml

[wynn]

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-5250DN says the printer emulates PostScript level 3 in the Windows driver. It seems to be an open question whether the Brother supplied Linux driver does the same. The recommended driver is hl1250 which is in ghostscript-esp 8.x.

Gentoo Printing Guide gives AppSocket/HP JetDirect, Internet Printing Protocol or LPD/LPR Host or Printer as the possibilities for communicating from CUPS to a networked printer. You will have to search through the docs to see if it supports HP JetDirect, it may support IPP or it may only have an LPD server. All these should be set up using the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631)
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[IRQsRFun]

Thank you everybody for the fast response. I thought I RTFM'd this but http://localhost:631 was right in the gentoo docs. I am now able to print a test page from http://localhost:631.

[IRQsRFun]

Everything bu duplexing is working. this is usable enough for now.

[rmh3093]