Hi, The HP2500cm printers can be very painful, their PostScript processing power is somewhat lacking and if any code is sent to the printer that it doesn't like, it usually just powers off!
In the end however, we found that printing jobs in PCL is considerably faster and setting the pjl_only option in ifhp.conf to pjl_only=[ ] i.e. empty, makes the printer a lot more reliable! (And of course, an 'of' filter will mess it up aswell!) An alternative to this printer is the HP2280, we have several of these and there are a massive improvement. No pagecounts, but PostScript is printed with very little delay, and almost at the speed of a laser printer. .. We use the A4 version, there is probably also an A3 version available. Cheers, sam On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:05, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I would like to also solict any experiences you have had with HP InkJet > printers in a workgroup environment. I have a terrible HP 2500CM that I am > going to replace, but I don't trust the HP inkjets because of it. Are my > fears unfounded? > > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > > See, the trouble is, the product lines don't sit still! :) > > > > At any rate, I'm in the market for all new printers. Xerox is my > > front-runner right now, being that they have true Adobe PS (the fake BS > > has been driving me nuts for months), seem to have good other features, > > have a nice solid ink printer, etc. > > > > However, I am still open to suggestions on other vendors (in fact, I'd > > like to know from those with experience if Xerox printers work well with > > LPRng or not). Accounting is a must. Printing is /about/ 100,000 pages per > > month. Printing limited by IP address should be possible, but it is not > > ultimately necessary. The Xerox printers I looked at, incidentally, are > > the 4400 and the color 8200. > > > > Also, anyone have any recommendations in the poster printer dept? > > > > I looked through the ifhp.conf file, but... a lot of the info in there is > > out of date and supported printers are not listed but do work with older > > defs (especially unclear is cases like Tektronix -- their printers worked > > well, do Xerox's?). > > > > Thanks! > > > > (PS: I already looked at linuxprinting.org and some other places) > > > > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin > > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. 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