[PLUG] [OT] JetDirect cards

[alan]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, HarrY wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:06:54 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >I like JetDirect personally.  I would definitely recommend doing this if
> >you got the cash.
> >
> >On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:41, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >>   Anyone here have experience and comments on using the HP JetDirect (or
> >> equivalent) cards to connect printers via ethernet rather than a parallel
> >> cable? I'm wondering if it would be a reasonable thing to do with the HP
> >> LaserJet 5 and Professional Series 2500C I have.
> >> 
> >> TIA,
> >> 
> >> Rich
> Rich,
> I'm using a jet card in my HP1600cn and it works fine.
> However,
> The cost of the cards is high. For the cost of one card, you can buy a
> multi parallel port print server and run several printers off one
> print server.
> I paid just under $100 for my last jet card and under $75 for my
> Linksys Print server. it's a 2 port/switched print server. It has 2
> parallel ports and 4 ethernet ports.
> IIRC I paid something like $55 for the print server and was given a
> DSL router to go with it.

I have had problems with the LinkSys.  I have not gotten it to talk to the 
second printer consistantly.  The documentation is not to clear what to 
call the second queue via lpd.  Maybe I need to use some other protocol.  
(Or remember to save my settings when I rebuild the system after six 
months...)