Well, the laserjet has LPD support and support for "telnet" printing. You have
to decide which one you want to use. When you say, "VAX is uing the latest
release of TCPIP." I assume you mean UCX (aka. TCPIP Svc's...). If you do then
you can either set up an LPD queue pointing to the laserjet or a telnet symbiont
print queue.
Most customer with laserjets are using the telnet symbiont. Setting the queues
up is easy and is in the documentation. On your INIT/QUEUE statement you need to
do /PROC=UCX$TELNETSYM and /ON="host-name-of-laserjet-printer:portnumber". To
clarify the value of the /On qualifier, it takes two parameters separated by a
colon. The first is the DNS name of the laserjet (or the IP address of the
laserjet) and the second is the port on which the laserjet is listening. You
need to find out from HP what port to use but I seem to remember that 9001 is
the telnet printing port.
Depending on the type of printing you need
to do (postscript,landscape...) you may need to create a device control library
with setup modules and or reset modules to get exact results you want. At this
point HP doesn't supply this stuff for VMS and so the customers I have dealt
with are all rolling their own. We have just received a laserjet here so at some
point (hopefully in the near future) we will be going through this exercise
after which time we will have better info.
