In my experience, Linux plays very well with these units, with one caveat;
If you are buying a used one, make sure that it's one of the newer models.
I don't know when the cutoff date was, but the older models didn't emulate
lpd, and the newer ones do. I bought a used 4si printer for home, and it had
the JetDirect card in it, but as it turns out, it's too old to support lpd.
These older units only support a proprietary (but not in the least bit complex)
connection to port 9100. So, you have to hack up a quick script that funnels
the raw post script data through a telnet connection to port 9100. HP has a
print manager for Solaris that does just this, and hides the details, but I
don't believe they had one for Linux.
Some of these older units can be upgraded with a flash simm, if you can find
one. Oh, yeah, the price of the flash simm's on the surplus market is about
what I can find one of the newer JetDirect cards for, so you know which way
I decided to go.
All in all, the JetDirect cards / HP external print server are a nice way to go.
Makes things seamless with Windows systems and Linux/Solaris/BSD systems.
Hope that helps,
Carl
Hartnett wrote:
>
> I was thinking about getting a HP direct jet unit and plug my printer
> into that and put it onto my network.
> How well does Linux play with these units, if anyone knows?
>
> Thanks
> Sean
>
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