Re: print server role vs printing directly to network printers

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On 4/14/2009 6:26 PM, Rich Wonneberger wrote:
Also, if you had 2 identical printers and one broke you could point its queue to the other printers address and people would continue to print to that one.

You can do this with IP printing as well. Simply add the second printer as a new IP port and enable printer pooling across multiple IP ports.

I have been using IP printing (both RAW and LPR) for many years with no ill effect.

The only thing that I have really noticed is that so lower quality print servers will only talk to one client at a time. So you end up with a "first (insert your favorite word here) in the hole gets it" situation that print servers with a queue tend to avoid.

Along the same line you can probably set up different priorities for different users with a queue that you can't really do with IP printing.

I usually just point the IP port to the IP address of the print server, but I have also set the IP port to a name that is then resolvable via DNS. Using DNS will tend to help if there is a chance that IPs will change.

I have also found some printers that will use their own printer monitor rather than Standard TCP/IP printer port, usually for enhanced functionality / features that Standard TCP/IP printer port can't provide.

You can use IP printing with out having to allow NetBIOS traffic between two systems. With this in mind you can allow two distinct companies to share a printer with out needing to worry about accounts on each others servers.

IP printing (including Print Services for Unix) allows other vendors to use printers with out having to have complex support for SMB / CIFS.



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