Anthony Wood was once rumoured to have said: > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:00, Terry Collins wrote: > > Is there a Debian package to install for printing to jetdirect/network > > print server printers? > > Terry, as far as I can work out, jetdirect cards run an lpd on a > standard port, so you just set up printing as if it was another > linux box running lpd/lprng/cups on the standard port.
They do, however, in the older JetDirect boards, the boards would only accept one tcp connection at a time, and of course, you had the usual job interruption woes if somebody wanted to print using a different protocol after you... Ugh. I hate JetDirects. Your best bet it to always try to build a unified system, and not allow anybody but your printspooler to print directly to the printer, and then have everybody queue their jobs via $PRINTING_PROTOCOL. The IBM network interface is somewhat nicer - I've set one up for a friend recently. They require less hand holding as they seem to do lpd right. However I couldn't get CUPS to print to it nicely, so I'm using lpd again. As for the Axis communication print servers, my only comment is... RUN AWAY. The Axis gear is horrible - as are most external print servers. They're unreliable (They crashed on a regular basis), anti-social (We had an Axis print server which once managed to lock a large segment of the ethernet network at JCSMR by crashing and locking its TX line high) and they generally don't handle queueing well due to not being able to assertain good status information about the printer and not knowing quite when to start sending the next print job. Network printers are a wonderful thing... if you can get the damned things to run right. Printing in a homogenous environment is always much easier. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
