> I think native PS simplifies things.
Definitly, but very hard to find on personal printers. Ghostscript
supports alot of printers and the tools for setting them up are good, so I
wouldn't be too conserned with this.

> One thing I would look for is an ethernet port.
Most personal printers won't have one. HP adds this functionality to
personal printers via external JetDirect printservers. JetDirect
servers that use ethernet start at $150. If you printer is USB only, HP
makes the only prinservers I've seen so far that support them.

If your looking for a network soultion for your personal printer(s) I
recoment the Netgear print servers. Pretty slick setup via the windows
software, or by simply editing the config file and transfering via ftp.
Seems that not every option in the config file is documented, but that's
ok. The ones you need are. It's a slick lille embedded device that support
LPD and SMB printing (as well as some less common forms of network
printing.) I have one running a printer in the office. Thinking of
getting one for myself.

To print to one of these to a non-ps printer in linux you would have to
use lprng as lprng supports filtering print jobs before sending them to a
network spool. (Also useful when your workstations are Athlons and your
print server is a 486.)



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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Bob Gilbertson wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> No preference on particular brand/model.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Gilbertson
>
> Timothy Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Is is worth the money to get something that speaks PS natively? If not, I
> > imagine there are quite a few that would be OK.
> >
> > Any recommendations? Both PS and non-PS.
> >
> > -Tim
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