Mac Forum / General / Networking / August 2004

Sorry for cross posting this but I'm not sure what group would be best
for it.

I just got a nice Laserwriter 16/600 off ebay for my daughter to use at
college.  Ultimately, I am hoping she can print to it wirelessly.  
Here's her setup as it presently exists:

Rev A iMac OS 9 - Netgear MR814v2 wireless router - cable modem...and a
900 Mhz iBook OS 10.2.8 with an airport card.

Since the Netgear router won't pass Appletalk wirelessly, I have to use
IP printing, right?

From what I've been able to gather from Apple's techinfo, the web, etc,
I use Apple Printer Utility on OS 9 to assign an IP address to the LW
16/660, something like 192.168.0.5, I assume.

Then I have to tell the router to reserve that address based on the
printer's MAC address.

Then on OS 9 I use Desktop Printer Utility to set up IP printing and the
Print Center to set it up on OS X, right?

However, my question concerns what to specify for the "queue."  I've
come across some notes that say something about how old printers
sometimes need some unix code in the queue like <lp -d> or something
like that. Can someone give some advice on this?  The problem is that I
need to drive 100 miles to do this setup, and I want to be prepared so
that I can get it right the first time!

Last night I tried to get IP printing set up on the LW 16/600 using my
old PM 7600 OS 8.6 at home.  I could connect to it through ethernet
using a hub and print fine with Appletalk.  And Apple Printer Utility
worked fine to give the LW it's IP address. I left the Queue box blank
since I didn't know what to put in it.  Then when I tried to set up LPR
printing with Desktop Printer Utility, clicking the "verify" button
after entering the IP address caused the Mac to dial up my ISP in
attempt to find "192.168.0.5"  In other words, It didn't recognize that
a printer with that address was already connected to its ethernet port.

Thanks!

Bill