Installing the Epilog laser cutter as a networked printer via ethernet port

Amy Sun [amys@cba.mit.edu] 7/11/05

Some FabLabs use the ethernet connection on the Epilog laser cutter. This is particularly true at labs with the Epilog Legend Mini model have only a USB and ethernet connection. To my knowledge, the Mini model is at Pabal (India), South Africa, and soon to be Costa Rica. These instructions are meant for Epilog cutters which are connected via the ethernet connection (on the back side of the cutter) to a network hub or switch.


"K" -> Settings -> Printing Manager

"Add" -> Add Printer/Class, click "Next"
check "Remote LPD Queue", click "Next"
Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx enter the IP address of the Epilog Queue: raw, it will complain that it can't find the queue, click on "yes" continue anyway
check Raw printer near the bottom of the window, click "Next"
Next (do not send test page), Next, Next, Next
Name: epilog
other fields are optional, click "Next"
"Finish"

And there you have it!

You use the lp commands to send or query.

lpr -Pepilog filename.epi (change the "epilog" to whatever you named the printer in step 7) -- to send filename.epi to the epilog
lpq -Pepilog - to see what files are waiting in the local computer's queue, also reports the status of the epilog
lprm -Pepilog - removes the top most job waiting in the computer's queue

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