[Tfug] HP620n jetdirect card useage

[Steve McAllister]

It's been a long time since I had anything to do with printers, but a jet
direct card allows a printer to show up on the network, so anyone on the
network can print to it.
Of course using it with a print server running cups would be a plus on a
network with multiple users.

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:19 AM, John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an old HP 6mp LaserJet that I acquired some years back from World
> Care, which meets my needs for a printer. I would like to have some way of
> connecting it to a network and I see that there are devices from HP called
> Jetdirect cards (620n). These can be picked up cheaply on sites like eBay,
> and connect via an rj45 cat4/5 cable.
>
> Would a device such as that function as a stand-alone entity (be visible
> on the network as an lj6 printer), if connected to a wifi router port? Or
> is it necessary to have it connected to a network peer machine and have it
> configured via CUPS or some other intermediary service running in order to
> print.
>
> Anybody here have experience doing this sort of thing? How about printing
> from an office suite running on an Android device?
>
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