Re: Departmental printing - LPD or CUPS?
- From: Nigel Wade <nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:03:27 +0100
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article <f1st5n$7ve$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nigel Wade
<nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
But that is anarchy.
It's a uni after all :-)
Exactly, there is enough inherent anarchy without encouraging even more.
You've just contradicted yourself there. First you say you don't need all the
file conversion filters that CUPS provides
correct.
because the printers all print
PostScript,
and the workstations are configured to print Postscript. In addition,
99% of the applications we use will talk Postscript.
and then you go on to say that your users send non-PostScript files
to the printer.
As users are wont to do.
Make your mind up.
Chill out.
That's why departments have computer administrators,
to go and sort out those problems when they do occur ;-)
Our department has 0.75 of a full time administrator. My aim is to set
up the system so it runs with the minimum of necessary intervention. To
achieve this, I'm a believer in the KISS principle (Keep It Simple,
Stupid!)
CUPS *ought* to help in that respect. I use RHEL AS4 here and CUPS is taken care
of by the RedHat printer manager, which does a reasonable job. If you want each
client to be its own print server that's fine, just configure each machine with
their own printers sending direct to the IP/JetDirect port of the printer, but
remember to disable the sharing option so other clients don't get those queues
popping up as alternative print queues.
That shouldn't happen if the server and clients are configured correctly. Only
the print server should advertise its queues. All other systems should be
configured to only accept connections from the loopback interface.
Thank you. I'll show my colleague this thread; he's the one who has set
up CUPS - I'll let him fix it :-)
Many thanks everyone for your input. In summary, CUPS is the way to go,
but it needs care in its configuration.
What distro are you running and what CUPS tools does it provide?
--
Nigel Wade
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