Hello! What about setting up a service machine running the appropriate Linux distribution here, but just for running CUPS? It would pick up print jobs appropriately, and render them, doing that only, not any of the other work that the system is doing, just the print jobs, and finally spool them out to the selected printer devices?
About the only set of problems are in the classic ones of picking the right Linux one, and then setting up the guest (or in this case service machine) and then connecting it. But those are easy compared to the definitive work of setting things up. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 7/18/2014 at 10:13 AM, "Gentry, Steve" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> (cross posted to Linux list) >> Has anyone setup a z/Linux print server and are using it in production? I >> am wondering if there any pit falls, etc. And if you had to do it over, >> would you do it again. I'm considering setting one up but don't want to get >> into a management nightmare. > > CUPS does a pretty good job of making management less than nightmarish. You > do need to make sure the CUPS server is able to receive the various printer > "broadcasts" from Windows and other operating systems. > > The one caveat I would warn about is that printing turns out to be fairly CPU > intensive. The print server does a lot of processing to render the output > for the various printers. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
