Re: JetDirect EX Plus3

[fcubbage@xxxxxxxx (Frank E Cubbage)]

Thanks I was concluding this, its not so bad now that they have come out
with the 150X EXT for about $160.

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:55:52 -0500 Danny McQuestion <dcmcques@vantek.net>
writes:
>Can't be done with the AS/400.  If found this out from first hand
>experience at our Canadian office last month!  You have to use 
>seperate
>JetDirect cards for the AS/400 to communicate to the printer.  The
>JetDirect EX Plus3 only uses one IP address.  Since it uses only one 
>IP
>address, the AS/400 sends everything to that address.  There is no way
>to differenciate <sp> between all three parallel ports.
>
>I know....  I was very disappointed as well!!!!  We really needed to
>hook up two printers but thought that we were going to be able to hook
>up the color DeskJet as well.  Ended up hooking both Epson LQ-2550's 
>to
>individual HP JetDirect EX's instead.  Works great.
>
>Danny Mc?
>
>fcubbage@juno.com wrote:
>
>> >>We tried doing this however, I don't think its possible.  We used
>> the
>> >>same JetDirect card and finally just put the printers on separate
>> >cards.
>> >>> I know we spoke about external Print Servers in the past, but 
>does
>>
>> >>> anyone know how to set up a Queue to use the second and third
>> > port?  Or maybe the question is how do you distinguish between
>> ports?
>> >>> As far as I can tell the device only has one IP address.
>> >Do the different ports have different names? I've only heard of 
>'raw'
>>
>> (in
>> ><italic>Printing III</italic> or <italic>Printing IV</italic>
>> redbook),
>> >which worked for us. I'm on vacation, so I can't easily get info on
>> any
>> >of the cards we're using.
>>
>> Yes they have different names.  In fact if you use NT & TCP/IP you
>> address
>> them using raw1, raw2, raw3 when you setup a printer.  I don't know
>> how  to do the equivalent on AS/400.  I only know how to attach
>> a queue to an IP address.
>
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