On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:36:17 -0500 "Van Sickler, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The Lanier is a Ricoh Aficio 3800CMF > > > rebranded. It's internal print firmware > > > is fragile and poorly implemented. > > > Printing PS3 directly to any of > > > the various embedded print servers > > > corrupts the queue listing, and eventually > > > the printer won't accept any new jobs. > > > Warm booting the printer 3-4 times a day > > > gets to be annoying real fast. I've had > > > to reformat the internal hard drive > > > a couple of times in order to clean out > > > all of the gremlins. > Actually, I'm pretty happy with it-once I figured out > which drivers & setup to use and which drivers & setup > to avoid, it's been very stable and productive. From a > maintenance standpoint, it's fast/easy to swap out the > fuser oil units, toner, photoconductors, etc. > I only call out the vendor service when it's a major job, > or the "you break it, you pay for it" variety. This gives me a sort of sinking feeling...we just went and replaced a number of Xerox Phaser 5400 printers with Lanier LD045/LD060 copiers and Lanier 2145 printers (rebranded Ricoh Aficio 1045/1060 and AP4510 products). From what I've seen, the paper-handling mechanism is pretty solid in these units. The network interface didn't seem to be any worse than other printers we've dealt with so far. We also just installed a Lanier LP 020c color printer...no such delays with. Everything we print goes to a RedHat 9/LPRng print server, which processes jobs and sends them out to the appropriate printer using port 9100/appsocket. (Our Tektronix Phaser 850DP met an early demise when some well-meaning users tried to unjam the printer and proceeded to break one of the paper-path sensors.) We do all our printer status and pagecounts via SNMP. I've all but given up on doing it any other way. Jobs go off to the printers, they print, then we do a page count query, calculate the number of jobs printed and finish. (Why would we take on such a massive replacement? Mainly cost: with the state purchase contract in effect that we can use, it cost us LESS to go and lease brand new printers than it did to keep buying toner and maintenance kits for the Xerox printers we had already bought outright.) -- ============================================================================ John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. Dayton St. 608-262-0438/608-262-6626 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685 ============================================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
