[wplug] printing to network printer

[Brandon Poyner]

On 1/19/07, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Actually, GDI refers to the language of the datastream, not the protocol
> used to get data to the printer itself.  GDI printers can still talk
> over TCP/IP.
>
> --Patrick

Right, perhaps hastily worded on my part.  The z65n uses a proprietary
datastream GDI instead of something like PCL, and it doesn't use
common network protocols (which protocol it does use IBM doesn't seem
to say).

-- 
Brandon