Re: printer recommendation for hobbyist cluster
- From: John Santos <john@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:07:23 GMT
Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
I have no printer in my hobbyist cluster (VAX and ALPHA, nothing very
new). I would like to have one. The minimum would be a printer which
would print plain text as well as PostScript. These days, it should
also be possible to print a PDF file on it. Another requirement would
be the ability for a web browser to print a given page (not sure how
this works behind the scenes). Colour would be nice, but I could live
with black and white if colour is going to cost me a lot more (in
initial costs or in maintenance).
I don't care how it is connected up, as long as it can be. (Serial? Parallel? Network?) An added plus would be the ability for non-VMS stuff on the LAN to use it as well (presumably this would imply a network connection).
300 DPI should be enough, but 600 (or even more) would be nice.
Can I buy some new printer off the shelf in any old shop?
What new HP printers would fit the bill?
What used DEC/Compaq/HP printers would fit the bill?
To save paper, the ability to print double-sided would be nice.
A4 is the only size I need.
If anyone has such a printer to give away or sell cheap in Europe, let me know and I'll see if I can come and get it.
Now, *many* of your points would be answered by reading some
sales material... ;-)
I use a HP LaserJet P2015n as noted in a another thread.
PCL5, PCL6 and Postscript. It "works". I also have a
HP Color Laserjet 2600n on my office LAN, but not setup from my
VMS box yet, but I see no reason why that should be any problem.
I've used the n-up feature of DCPS to print 2-page pages of COBOL
source code on the P2015n, nice...
I guess that a printer with a builtin LAN interface is what
most would use today.
With todays prices on laser printers I see no reason to
look for used/old stuff. Newer printers always have nice
builtin setup web pages which makes them realy easy to
work with. And of course you use a PC browser to do that...
Jan-Erik.
Correction !
HP printers (of any type) using *host-based* rendering (such
as the cheaper Color LJ's) are of course not supported on VMS
or anything else then Windows (and maybe some Mac's)...
Maybe things have changed recently, but I got a deskjet 5550
free with my Mac PowerBook (about 5 years ago, can that be?)
which works fine with my VMS systems... I have it plugged
the USB port on my Airport wifi router, and print to it using
TCPware's telnet printer symbiont on port 9100 of the router,
using a device control library we wrote many years ago for
a laserjet 3D. Just simple stuff, mostly plain text, but it
works. Can't get cheaper than "free". :-)
--
John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
781-861-0670 ext 539
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