That is for sure the case, average network printers (I assume) probably don't have any more than a few megabytes. I would think that it would be more preferable even w/ a jet direct card to setup a 'true' print server. Either the machine connected to the printer (either windows or linux) and print to that machine as opposed to the printer itself. I've got a HPLaserjet 4100N, and although for light office printing it works fine, any time anything serious is going on around here, it starts to bog down. Everyone prints direct to the printer, I am ultimately changing that to have each client print to a windows box and spool everything there.
Joey Officer Martin Apparatus, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Schalit Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:19 PM To: Jeff Newmiller Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] vpn help, link included Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Matthew Schalit wrote: > > >>In addition to what JO said, I'd put the printer on >>a Jetdirect and make life easy. > > > As someone with a printer with a Jetdirect, I highly recommend having a > single computer act as print server anyway... spooling performance can > suck remarkably if you don't. Thanks for the tip. I've noticed a slowness w/some printers that didn't have a lot of RAM when using their builtin NICS and no Jetdirect. Is that possibly a factor in your setup? If it can't dump the print job completely into the printer's RAM, then it slows down, AFAIK. Sort of OT, but interesting. Matt ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! Linux or FreeBSD, FREE setup, FAST network. Get your own server today at http://www.ServePath.com/indexfm.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
