Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:00:31 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Gabriel Mark Mains <gmains@damn-cool.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer sharing for Macs? Message-ID: <3A9E55FF.6539FBCE@mail.iowna.com> References: <000501c0a229$52979ac0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > You probably will say Boo Hiss but if you want my opinion > the easiest way to do this is to purchase a HP JetDirect > printserver, either the internal card that goes into the > 4MV or an external JetDirect EX+, both of which can be had > for about $50 from Ebay, and will support both Appletalk > and LPR on your network. Easiest, maybe, but I recently disabled a jetdirect card in a printer and moved it to running of a FreeBSD queue for 2 reasons: 1. The jetdirect card could only queue up so many jobs and would tie up the workstations when it was full. 2. You can't remove jobs from the jetdirect queue or move important jobs to the top of the queue. In this case these were important as the print jobs were heavy graphics prints that would sometimes take a long time for the printer to complete. I'm not "Boo Hiss"ing. I'm just saying that sometimes a JetDirect card doesn't cut it. That being said, if you don't need #1 & 2 above, I recommend the JetDirect card as well. They really can make life easy for most printing applications. It's just important to know the drawbacks. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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