[wplug] printing to network printer

[Brandon Poyner]

On 1/18/07, Rick Reynolds <rick at rickandviv.net> wrote:

> Yes, I'm starting to wonder if this printer uses TCP/IP to communicate
> at all.  Since it doesn't respond to any port scanning and/or pings, it
> makes it a bit suspicious.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Reynolds

A document I found at IBM seems to indicate that the z65n uses
something called GDI for printing and doesn't accept the LPR,
jetdirect, or other common protocols.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1023b5ee0895389a7862569c10078d695

"Host-Based Printing", "Proprietary (GDI)" and "Windows GDI" are
generic terms that can refer to any Host-based or Windows-only
printer, which use a proprietary printer data stream rather than an
industry-standard printer data stream such as IBM Proprinter Data
Stream (PPDS), Epson ESC/P2, HP Printer Control Language (PCL), or
Adobe PostScript (PS). These printers support printing from Windows,
and possibly from Macintosh or Linux, but will not print directly from
i5/OS, OS/400, Unix or any other non-PC-based Operating System -- even
if the printers can be network-attached. Since these printers require
a proprietary printer data stream, they will not work with Host Print
Transform (HPT) or a PC5250 Printer Definition Table (PDT) File.

-- 
Brandon