[K12OSN] HP Laserjet Printer w/embedded jetdirect print server

[Liam Marshall]

Jim McQuillan wrote:

>Liam,
>
>there still could be some heavy processing on the server.
>
>The issue is, you can feed cups all kinds of file formats, and it will
>convert those files to postscript or pcl.
>
>You can shoot PDF files, JPEG files, HTML, all kinds of stuff, and cups
>will figure it out.
>
>Also, most of the time if you send Postscript to cups, it will
>re-process it, to make sure the postscript stream conforms to what the
>printer can handle.
>
>The only way I know of to eliminate that processing is to set the
>printer up in cups as 'RAW', and make sure that you only feed postscript
>to it.
>
>There might be a way to set the 'nice' priority for cups to not drag
>down the server so badly, at the expense of taking longer to get print
>jobs out.
>
>In my experience tho, i've never had a problem with the processing that
>takes place for print jobs.
>
>Jim McQuillan
>jam at Ltsp.org
>
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if this is true, is there any advantage at all to connecting the printer 
to the server via the network(TCP/IP) connection built in as opposed to 
direct via parallel?  either works for me, I was just looking for the 
best performance