On Tuesday 03 June 2003 09:04, Steve Pacenka wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:00, Mike M wrote: > > Is anyone using CUPS to implement a print server on a SPARC? Is it > > working well? Any tips, tricks, or documents that can be recommended? I > > didn't find much on Google. > > Mike, > > I put a cheap OHCI USB 1.1 card in an Ultra10. It serves up an HP > inkjet nicely via CUPS from unstable. No unusual config required. > Stock 2.4.19 kernel. > > I failed to get the same printer working via parallel on this box, under > Sarge earlier. > > Perhaps a USB-to-Parallel adaptor would work if the printer has no USB > port. > > > Is a network printer easier to get working on a SPARC box than a parallel > > port printer?
OR get a printer with USB. The Epson Color 850 renders l-o-o-o-w quality digital images and ink cartridges are $$$ and they clog with long idle periods. > > Does this mean printing from the SPARC box to the network printer, i.e. > the U5 is a client not a printer server? I was wondering if the U5 as a print server was more often setup with a printer with a NIC. I was thinking that's why I didn't Google much on SPARC + parallel + CUPS. I don't have a printer with a NIC - I was just curious since that's how it was done (I think) when I was employed at MegaCorp Inc. > > My first attempts to print from the U10 using sarge with CUPS were > futile. The printer was hanging off a borrowed HP jetdirect (ethernet > print server) box. Several other machines on the LAN could print to the > printer but every job from the U10 went into oblivion. It could be that > I had my U10's CUPS configured wrong. This failure is one reason why I > tried to go direct parallel and finally USB with the printer right on > the U10. I use the U10 as a file, mail, audio, and HTTP server so it's > powered on most of the time, it might as well be a printer server too. > > Just got the USB printing working (first attempt) two days ago so I'm > not sure how well this performs under load. Working on 1st attempt is +10 Handling load is d/c in my operation > > -- good luck, SP Good ideas. Thanks -- Mike M.
