RE: [hpoj-devel] Connecting to Office Jet G85 on network

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Erich K. Oliphant wrote:
> I've been poking around your site and I had a quick question.  You driver 
> supports direct parallel and network JetDirect connections.  I have a G85
(USB) 
> connected to a Win98 machine.  I'm currently connected to it via SMB and
using 
> the DeskJet 550 driver for now.  Can I connect with the stuff you guys
have?

Hi, Erich.  At the moment, as you observed, only direct-parallel and
network-JetDirect connections are supported.  I'm working on USB support,
but it's nowhere near ready to release.  In any case, there's no way to
access any of the non-printing (i.e. scanning) functionality over the
network when the G85 is connected to a Windows machine, which I think is
what you were asking about.

The best way to be able to access your G85 from both the Windows and the
Linux machine(s) would be to get a JetDirect (70X, 170X, 300X, or 500X with
firmware x.08.xx or later).  Alternatively, if you only cared about printing
from Windows, then you could just move the connection over to the Linux box
(parallel only for now), and configure Samba to share the printer over the
network for the sake of the Windows box.

Note that even though the G85 has both parallel and USB connections, it
doesn't support hot-swapping between them, so you have to power cycle the
device whenever you change which I/O port it's connected to.

David