Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Graham Smith <gqs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:02, John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:35, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
> > If the printer has a network card like a HP Jetdirect you can also
> > configure your computer to print directly the printer and bypasss the
> > Samba server altogether.
>
> But don't do that.  If you have a linux server, use it as such rather
> than relying on a dumb print box to arbitrate concurrent access.
>
> Send it all thru cups.  All of it.
>

I will second that especially with Windows. You are just inviting trouble. I 
have seen it over and over again where someone sets up the printer to control 
the queuing and they find print jobs drop out, pages missing and formatting 
problems. More problems than you can poke at stick at.

Cups just works and works well and requires virtually no maintenance or 
administration once installed.


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Regards,

Graham Smith
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