[TriLUG] ethernet print server

[Chris Bullock]

First off, HP JetDirects are the best printservers IMHO.  We have tried 
several different brands, D-Link, Linksys, NetGear, etc and none of them have 
help up like the JetDirects.  The others work fine but about once a week I 
spend my time on each non-HP rebooting the print server because they fail for 
some reason or another.

IP printing is IP printing no matter what brand of print server you use, 
assuming you will be using ip printing.  Just point your printer to send to 
ipp:\\$ipaddress\$portnumber and you are printing.  The most common printer 
port is 9100, that is what most OS's use as the default but different vendors 
use different port numbers ie NetGear uses 4100.  I did have a net gear that 
you didn't even have to configure, if must have used some sort of SMB 
protocol because it just showed up in WINS or LinNeighborhood, and you just 
captured the printer port.
--chris



On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:25 am, Jason Tower wrote:
> i need a couple of these for a job, HP jet directs are great but
> expensive.  can anyone recommend an inexpensive ethernet print server
> that plays nice with linux?  speaking of which, do any such devices
> support usb printers (not that i need it now, just curious)?  thanks,
>
> jason