Topic: o/t - recommended printer?

[Mike Stoddart]

Can anyone recommend a good inkjet printer to use with E-Smith and Windows? I'm not too bothered about colour, although Im sure I'll use it. It has to be a good quality make, and be fast when printing black and white. Thanks.

[Orville Carter]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good inkjet printer to use with E-Smith
> and Windows? I'm not too bothered about colour, although Im
> sure I'll use it. It has to be a good quality make, and be fast
> when printing black and white. Thanks.

Mike,

Most of the HP Deskjet series seem to work well. How fast is fast?

I use the HP Deskjet 695C on esmith server. It works! We have also tried
the Epson Stylus 800.

Orville

[Mike Stoddart]

Fast doesnt have to be that fast- just enough so that I dont get angry! Do the HP printers work with E-Smith? Thanks

[Tim Litwiller]

Mike, just use whatever printer you want, set the output type a raw when you set it up in e-smith and the it will pass the data thru from your windows machine without changing anything in the datastream.

I have a HP winprinter working that way for one customer.

[Henry]

I have 2 printers on the e-smith box (hp inkjet 932c and hp laserjet 1100) and another printer hooked to a win95 box on the network (hp 690 series inkjet). I've installed a second ide controller card to get the second printer port and e-smith recognized, configured and used the second card very well.
The apps that need a printer give me a choice of the 3 and run well with what I choose. The only gripe is that sometimes the spool is a bit slow if the load on the network is high. Graphics or print jobs with more than 20 pages seem to be the slowest.

All in all, the spooler does a good job dealing with a variety of printer requests and the convience of having the server spool the print job instead of a workstation (very slow operation while printing) is worth the occasional slow spooling.

CU later.......

[Mike Stoddart]

How much work is involved in configuring the E-Smith server to use a printer?

[Tim Litwiller]

plug it in, go to the e-smith-manager and put in the info. about what port it is on.

Very, very simple.

even on a jetdirect you can just put in the ip address of the printer and it works right off.

[Orville Carter]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> How much work is involved in configuring the E-Smith server to
> use a printer?

Printers on E-Smith can be configured in about 5 minutes.  TRUE!

[Mike Stoddart]

Wow! This is so easy! I bought an HP Deskjet 970, plugged it into the server, configured it on the server and client machines, and it worked first time! Damn that was easy!

[Mike Stoddart]

How can I cancel print jobs on the server?