[Info-vax] OT: DEClaser 5100 printer, ways to connect without Appletalk

[JF Mezei]

Paul Anderson wrote:

> Please explain.  Is this in Snow Leopard, perhaps?  Certainly an OpenVMS 
> system currently printing to a printer via AppleTalk will not care a 
> whit.

Correct. Snow Leopard has discarded all of what was left of Appletalk.
The VMS system can still talk LAT to the printer, but I suspect there
are no current printers who support LAT, so Apple wouldn't see a need to
pay whatever royalties for LAT support of printers.

> ...the port (as someone pointed out, 10001 I believe) is the raw socket 
> port but it's unidirectional and can't be used with DCPS.  Now the DCPS 
> System Manager's Guide says the printer doesn't support LPD either.  The 
> DEClaser 3500 (LN14) does do LPD but you need to specify the internal 
> queue name PORT1.

The port scan revealed the printer was listening to 515 , 10000 and 10001

A telnet to 10001 didn't do much.  I will have to try to see if it does
LPD. In teh short term, the macs can LPD to the VMS box which can then
LAT to the printer. But I am hoping to be fully weined from VMS by end
of year. So this widthdrawal of Appletalk is yet another hindrance to
this conversion.

> The DEClaser 5100 was introduced at the very beginning of supporting 
> TCP/IP on Digital brand printers, did not do it so well and was hard to 
> configure, except with the most excellent NPMANAGE on a Mac.


Do I detect a *slight* hint of pride in NPMANAGE ? :-) :-) -) :-) :-)