[lug] HP network printers

[Hugh Brown]

Thanks!


Calvin Dodge wrote:
> 
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> >
> > Any particular reason, other than lprng and CUPS are better?
> 
> My own experience (80-user network, 10 HP network printers) was that LPD
> could NOT handle more than 5 HP network printers (it would hang if
> assigned more), and it was frequently unreliable even with that number
> (I taught my co-worker about "log in, su, restart lpd" so he could
> handle it if I was gone). If a printer became uncommunicative (the HP
> 8500s did that sometimes with large color jobs), then often lpd would
> stop talking to ALL of the assigned printers.
> 
> After switching to LPRng I was able to serve all 10 printers from _one_
> computer - and the failure of a single printer didn't stop LPRng from
> feeding the other printers.
> 
> FWIW, Red Hat switched to LPRng when they released version 7.0, and I
> believe they made the right choice.
> 
> Calvin
> 
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