[K12OSN] Printing from a thin client: the improved version.

[Joe Guenther]

IHMO, I would seriously consider buying JetDirect network adapters for 
them and then printing directly to them via IP printing.  From my 
experience printing to PCL printers is very much more CPU intensive than 
printing to postscript printers, but seeing as these are HP 4+ printers 
and not 4 M+ you will have to take the extra CPU hit and considerably 
slower printing times. IHMO the best "improved version" of printing is 
to print direct to a Postscript printer via IP address.

I cannot speak about remote printers - if that would reduce the CPU drag 
of the PCL printers ... but in terms of simplicity the JetDirect cards 
are the way to go.  Maybe that is not quite the advice you were looking 
for ....

Joe Guenther

John P. Conlon wrote:

> At my school we have several parallel port HP-4 Plus laser printers. We
>
> want to connect them to thin clients in various classrooms.
> 1. In the printer setup utility in root what selections do we need to
> make to cause the printer to work?  Particularly what path information 
> do I use, IP address, Mac address or what?
> 2. Do I need to make any entery in the lts.conf file?
> . Do any files other than printcap need to be edited? Which files and
> what changes need to be made in those files?
> Any and all information would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Pat
>
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