Crossfire wrote:
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> 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.
Aargh, if you didn't know to contact Intelligent Technologies and get a
bios upgrade, then you were stuffed and I can understand your attitude.
Both the problems I had with them were unsolveable, but once the bios
was upgraded, they ran like a dream. I really don't know why thet didn't
upgrade the bios before shipping them out as there was only one dealer
in Australia.
>
> 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.
When the axis worked (bios right), they were great. text/telnet/ftp or
WWW configurable. I preferred this over the HP management solution.
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