Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:
> Crossfire wrote:
> > As for the Axis communication print servers, my only comment is... RUN AWAY.
>
> I respectably suggest that your sys admin was totally bloody hopeless.
> Nicest print servers I've ever used (but I stopped at the 560). Might
> have changed in the last few years.
I believe the last ones I had to deal with were the 560s. In case you didn't
notice, I WAS the sysadmin, but I wasn't the one who set up the print system
and left it in a horrible state of mess - I was, however, expected to work with
it. The Axis print servers general exhibited the worse failure states of any
of the print servers we had.
> > 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)
>
> What did Axis say? Intelligent Technoglies used to handle them here and
> you could get fast response and bios upgrade same day. Fixed any
> problems I found in production servers. However, I suspect InTech got
> out of them as they started selling their own lines cheaper.
Did not contact - given that I didn't set the bastards up myself, and for all
I knew they were arcane and unsupported and I didn't care enough since the
problems were resolvable by unplugging the blessed thing and plugging it back
in again. Why the previous admins didn't just buy JetDirect boards is beyond
me - having the same solution across the board is a lot better than trying to
manage lots of different ones. Especially when almost all of the printers
involved were LaserJet series printers, and all of them could a happily take
a JetDirect board. I actually found a few spare JDs sitting around my office
at the time and I was in the process of ripping out the Axis boxes to replace
them with JDs.
Fixing the print system there was on my long-term Todo list - we had other
issues that needed resolution first. And fixing the print system was going
to be a major task - and major print system outages were not appreciated
by the staff either.
> Now, Intel print servers I requarded as bloody hopeless. Heard my quacks
> receptionist swearing at theirs the other day {:-).
never had the misfortune, fortunately. ;)
C.
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