Dear Right On Your Money,
You have a big office/building/space, woot. Why are you using IEEE
1284 at all? Does an organization with that much floor space have so
many made-for-the-desktop printers and not enough made-for-network
printers? (These are rhetorical; I don't assume that any of those
[puchasing] details were in fact yours... just ruffled my feathers.)
Thanks for telling it how it is, anyway.
To Dexter: It sounds like you are in fact looking for an "embedded"
device as they call them, since you don't want to run IEEE 1284 cable
all over the place. Unless you DON'T have a huge office building.
<grin>Oh, I know: use the old-fashioned printer switches, and dispatch
helper monkeys from the server to go push the buttons depending on the
spool's state.
Why not give the monkeys magic markers? Then they can sketch your print
jobs for you, without wasting their time running all over the 40,000
square feet building.</grin>
Bemused,
Confused
PS - Cory: WHY are you explaining the details of your work?? If I'm
reading the list right, it is Dexter's issue we are discussing. I don't
think I was suggesting that you do anything differently, or that your
setup was wrong... Again, woot to your great situation, but I don't see
how that sheds any light on the discussion. I was merely saying that
yes, jetdirect works, and wondering (to Dexter!) about whether the linux
box could act as a print server in HIS situation. Cheers.
PPS - Dex: Sorry I replied without being able to answer either of your
questions at all... again, printing jetdirect on port 9100 is confirmed
to be a potentially successful printing setup on linux afaik, ymmv.
PPPS - To everyone: get stuffed!!
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 15:21, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> Dear Confused,
> I have laser printers spread throughout my more than 40,000 square foot
> building. However I have all of my servers sitting in one room in the
> center. I'm not about to run even one IEEE 1284 cable 100ft out to each
> of those printers so they can be wired to "the ideal network printserver".
> Instead my building is wired with cat5.
>
> Also, I don't have my clients connecting directly to each of the jet
> direct print servers. Instead the clients connect to a real server, which
> spools to the jet direct printers. At any time I can reconfigure the real
> server to point to different terminal print servers without modifying the
> clients.
>
> Sincerely,
> Right on your money
>
> > Confused: isn't the linux workstation the ideal network printserver?
> > Why would you buy something else, unless you didn't want to rely on the
> > workstation for that purpose, of course... ?
> > I use a HP LaserJet 4050N here at the office, and am lucky 'cuz it is
> > network-connected with its own ether. Sorry no help there, but I can
> > attest to the good and proper functionality of jetdirect protocol
> > support when printing from linux...
> >
> > Hopefully Cory's right on your money.
> >
> > cheers and beers (happy "Friday"!)
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 14:21, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> >> Does anyone have experience running an HP DeskJet off
> >> a network printserver device from a Linux workstation?
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if it works and how well. What brand of
> >> print server would you recommend? Does it need to be
> >> an HP model to work with the DeskJet?
> >>
> >> My objective is to be able to print from any computer
> >> on my home network. Right now the printer is attached
> >> to my Windows machine.
> >>
> >> Dexter
--
Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
counterclaim
_______________________________________________
Eug-LUG mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
