[Info-vax] DCPS v2.7 problem with HP P2055dn printer

[Paul Anderson]

In article <6N6dnZDF-o5k8tbWnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d at supernews.com>,
 Alan Frisbie <Frisbie_REMOVE at Flying-Disk.com> wrote:

> On the plus side, I found that a Lexmark E250dn works fine with DCPS 
> as long as I set its personality to Postscript only.   It too has 
> some failings, however.   For instance, its MediaType entry for plain 
> paper is "Plain Paper" instead of simply "Plain". However, since I am 
> using it for labels only, that's OK here.

Values for Media Type are not hard-coded in DCPS, unlike values for 
Paper Size or Tray Name.  This for exactly the reason you 
discovered--the names often vary between printers.

> It fills the bill for a dirt-cheap Postscript printer, but the user 
> interface sucks dead rats through a straw.   To set it up, you have 
> to hook it to your network and let it get an IP address via DHCP.   
> Then you have to figure out *which* address it got, and use its 
> built-in web server on port 80 to re-configure it to a fixed IP.   
> You cannot do this from the front panel.

This is one of the pains in setting up a printer with no front panel.  
It's odd that a printer with a front panel would make you use the 
printer's web page to change the IP address.  But it's something that's 
not done too often, so maybe the coordination between the printer and 
its network interface was too much work for Lexmark.

Lexmark printers have a history of working well with DCPS, supported or 
not.

Paul