Ben and Dexter, here were the specs: > Does anyone have: 1) > experience 2) > ..running an HP DeskJet off a network print server device 3) > ..from a Linux workstation? > My objective is: 4) > to be able to print from any computer on my home network.
Given: > Right now the printer is attached to my Windows machine. > I'm wondering if it works and how well. It works well. > What brand of print server would you recommend? hp jet direct > Does it need to be an HP model to work with the DeskJet? No, I have Zebra label printers attached to an hp jet direct. One could also install a non-hp jet direct type of device to an HP printer. The device will have at least two connections: a printer cable (IEEE 1284, ben) and a cat 5 cable. The print server sits on your network and does not require any computer to serve it, or even be on. All machines on your home network are configured to print directly to it (ie 10.0.0.45 on port lp). An alternative is to have a computer print server where all of the clients spool to the computer print server, which then spools to the jet direct. This is what I have and is ideal for a network of more than a few clients. A printer like an HP LJ 4050N has a built in hp jet direct. The ones I'm talking about are external and work on any printer with a parallel port. Happy Thanksgiving! Cory > 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 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
