punt wrote:
Fred really has a point here! One of the weakest issues in LInux is the printers! The same issue was with OS/2 1.3. The bottom line is many companies have invested in HP laserjet or some type of Deskjet (epson, cannon, hp, lexmark, etc.). And many of us didn't go with the postscript option because for our budget we didn't need it ( kinda like the AMD thing! Couldn't resist!
Yer forgiven.<g> I had been retired from my insurance business for about 5 years, when I decieded to go back to work. Two years ago this past April, my dept. at Cornell created a new position. When I started, we didn't have any laser printers, nor bubble jets, etc....all dot matrix. 'Puters were a mix of '286, '386, a few '486 and only 4 P-5's. There was no mail server and only 2 people had access to the "outside" (net) via modem from their desktops. MessyDOS was the prominant OS, with some WIN3.11 on the newer boxes. All accounting, inventory, etc., was done on an RS-6000 570, and accessed via RS232 by IBM terminals and the PC's. A tad over 2 years later, we have a dual P-5 server with Cogent 100 base hubs, P-5's or better replaced all the old 'puters (either new or I rebuilt systems), and a bunch of bubble jets. I reluctently agreed to put NT on the server and Win-95 on the workstations. BOTH have given us a lot of grief. So, our situation is very much like the majority of the Country....new or almost new and old hardware that MUST be properly supported if Linux is to be used.
Anyway, I took the time to set them all up, but it was a pain and WAY to much time. And, if you want to interface to a NT server , then you get to aid samba to the equation (which isn't that big of deal, except the smbprint command looks different if you are sending it text versus graphics. yea I know, magicfilter to the rescue). But the bottom line is it is WAY to time consuming and too much interaction.
'Got that right, and I want to get rid of NT anyway. Fred -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e