Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:53:00PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> My point (which I did not make very well) was that a printer with
> Postscript capability and a built-in ethernet interface typically is
> well worth the price, because of the time savings which accumulate
> over the years. Configuring Linux for a non-Postscript printer and
> making a parallel- or usb-interface printer available to other
> machines on the LAN can be very expensive, if your time is worth
> anything.
Takes me about half an hour if the driver for the printer is in gs-gpl
or gs-esp. I use standard lpd and apsfilter. If I need fancy access
control then I use LPRng. If you don't mind brining in cupsys, you can
use LPRng, foomatic-printfilters, and foomatic-GUI and do the setup that
way. I've never done a full CUPS-only setup; never had the need.
Then, its just opening the lpr port in the server's firewall.
Doug.
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