[PLUG] foomanual

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Fri Mar 18 23:02:28 UTC 2005


On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:06:15PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Aaron Burt wrote:
> 
> >Actually, with HPs and other network printers, I've found that "raw" (TCP
> >socket, port 9100) mode tends to cause problems with jobs dying halfway
> >through or colliding with other jobs. But every net print device I've seen
> >supports plain ol' LPR mode, printer=lp. That works nicely, with no job
> >collisions or timeouts.
> 
>   I switched my HP LaserJet 5 and HP Professional Series 2500C from direct
> connections to JetDirect cards. Made the changes in /etc/cups/printers.conf
> and they've worked flawlessly ever since. Of course, it ain't a heavy load
> here.

Yeah, the problems I saw were when several computers were configured
to print directly to the printer; socket mode doesn't do any sort of
locking or job management that I can see.



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