On May 31, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Nasimuddin Ansari wrote: > At our office we have 5 Dot Matrix Printer and 1 network Laser Printer > 1- Passbook Printer > 2- A4 Size Printer > 3- 8"x12" Fan fold Continuous Sheet Printer > 4- 14"x12" Fan fold Continuous Sheet Printer > 5- 4x12 Envelop Printer > 6- HP2300 Laser Printer > > Our Requirement is to make a print server on a Linux machine. All the > printer are attached to paraller or serial port of Linux machine. We > wish that all the client can send all type of print job to linux > machine over network to Print Spooler Management Application running > at Linux Machine . Job can be spooled there and based on size of paper > to be used for a perticular print job, it can be diverted to a printer > attached to a port of Linux Machine appropriate or to a network > printer. > Is there any GNU application that can be used for making > this type of Print Server? > Is there any Commercial Software?
Various ways of achieving this. 1. Use CUPS (cups.org), configure a bunch of linux machines (or one depending on how many printers can one machine take) as print servers and attach these printers to those machines. Share them via SMB or other protocols as needed. 2. Network enable as many of these printers as possible (either using inbuilt network modules or external parallel-port-to-ethernet converters) and plug them directly on the network. Attach the others to a linux machine and share via the above method. -- VaibhaV Sharma http://vsharma.net _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
