I guess I must be the odd one here. But in the environments that I have been in, the rule of thumb is: PS printer for network printing and high speed local printing, non-PS printer for regular local printing. Over the years, The printers that I have to deal with are probably a very small sample of what's in the market: C-Itoh, Lexmark, HP, Tektronix, QMS and Xerox. Out of these, maybe one or two of them are non-laser printers -- C-Itoh line printer, and Lexmark Ink Jet color printer. Looking at these, I guess I am in a different environment then. Actually, one other type of printer that I have to deal with are the NeXT printers connected to the NeXTStations. One thing that I really don't understand is why do you need Samba to get the printer to talk to NT Server. Can't you use remote TCP/IP printing in NT? Will you still have any problems if you were to just use printers like HP Laserjet to do all the printing on UNIX machines and non-UNIX machines? I thought the Windows boxes have pretty good support for the Lasetjet printers all along. Graphics printing? Send it all to the Tektronix color printers. Hey, it does the job. But I am in no way a graphics expert. The stuff that I print out are mostly plain text, manuals or any other documents in PS format. Most of the time, the only kind of graphics that I have to print are PS graphics. So again, I don't have any problems at all. And if I want my document in color, again, just send it to the Tektronix color printers. As for the AIX boxes, to my knowledge, they just print directly to a PS printer or they will need Ghostscript. But I haven't seen anyone having their RS/6000 box connected to a PCL printer before. Regards, Kenneth Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Kenneth Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 cjtan@ieee.org 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A</A>> Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 "An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, 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! :))
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.
Ken....I'll try 1 more time.<g> Do you have any idea how much money we have tied up in printers....printers that work WELL with any flavor of Windoze?!! Speed is not the issue, unless GS is slower, but QUALITY of copy IS at issue as is the time required to setup each printer, of which there are very few the same make and model. Graphics IS an issue.....a BIG issue. Colors and resolution MUST be exact.
Fred
Fred A. Miller Systems Admin. Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org
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