[ale] CUPS or LPR?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Alex,

This isn't a direct answer to your question, but potentially relevant.  I've been using a stand alone print server on my network for years.  It's a Linksys PSUS4.  That model number may be obsolete.  I'm sure similar devices are still available.  It's just a very small box and it connects to a lan port on one side and a usb port on another and has a 4 port lan switch.  I just program the router to always give it the same ip address and connect it to the lan and the laser printer.  I have direct raw access to the print queue and both windows and linux machines can print to it.  I can send any kind of data I want to the printer.  When I set it up as an available printer in the client, I select it by ip address and load the drivers appropriate to that printer.  I love it and I don't have to dedicate a machine to running the printer.

Just an option you could consider in addition to what you described.

Sincerely,

Ron



Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

>I'm setting up a couple printers on a new machine with the intent on 
>allowing remote hosts to print to these printers.  One printer is a 
>serial label printer and the other is likely going to be a laser or
>inkjet.
>
>Both of them are going to need some kind of direct access given that 
>some of the clients will use their own drivers.  So which system do I 
>use now?  I remember most of my lpr setup process (though it has been a
>
>while) but almost everything else around keeps referencing CUPS.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>PS:  This is the first install I've done on a multi-head system that 
>went so smoothly.  X just worked (with nvidia drivers), it was quite 
>pleasant compared to the old incantations.
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