On Monday 29 March 2004 11:55, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Jon Shorie wrote: > >On Sunday 28 March 2004 13:34, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >>Anyone got any ideas about the best way to turn an old 486 into a print > >>server for a Canon BJC3000 ink printer (AFAIK not aWinPrinter) on my > >>network? > >> > >>Thank > >> > > > >We have several printers running here with various dot matrix/laser/ink > > jet printers hooked up. If the printer in question, is not usb, then I > > would suggest just using Redhat 6.2 for your print server. This is what > > we have done. If it is a usb printer, then make sure that your 486 has a > > usb port (yes some do) and then install redhat 7.3. > > > >We have as little as a 486dx2/50 supporting two dot matrix printers. Our > >uptime for this box is 207 days. The only time that it needs rebooted is > >when there is a significant power outage. > > > > > > > > Hi Jon, > > Is it not better to use CUPS with an ink printer or does it not make any > real difference? > > Thanks.. I use cups for printing on our linux desktop pc's, but the print servers are running lpr or lprng. They get along well as long as you remember on the client pc to click on the strict RFC 1197 option in the printer settings. We currently have 4 print servers running Redhat 6.2 and LPR and 2 print servers running 7.3 and LPRNG. The big advantage is that lprng will stay up even if one of the print queues goes down where on LPR it is possible to crash all print queues by just messing up one of them.
