On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:21:12PM -0800, 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
It would be more expensive and more of a PITA, but you _could_ build your own embedded GNU/Linux/CUPS print servers that would give you all that functionality, and more. Would really be pointless except maybe as a learning experience, tho. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
