Re: looking for a printer recommendation

From: Dan Martin (dcmartin_at_affinitycorp.com)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: 19 Nov 2003 08:28:17 -0800

Thank you for your reply, Bill.

bv@wjv.comREMOVE (Bill Vermillion) wrote in message news:<HoL3IF.22y3@wjv.com>...
> In article <56fe3a2b.0311180927.2410d01c@posting.google.com>,
> Dan Martin <dcmartin@affinitycorp.com> wrote:
> >Hello,
>
> >I have customer who purchased a pair of Lexmark x5150
> >multi-function printers. They attach to PCs via USB, and work
> >fine from windows. I told them not to even bother having me try
> >to get them printing from their SCO 505 application.
>
> Well if you had them install something like an HP print server
> that uses TCP/IP then every computer they have could use the
> printers including the SCO system. It's pretty easy.
>
Agreed. I've found it impossible to do this with HP's PPA printers,
and, if I understand the Lexmark support technician, The x5150 is
Lexmark's answer to PPA. ie, the printer is incapable of doing
anything, including printing re-directed text (from unix or DOS),
unless there is an operating system specific driver.

  
> >And I want is something that will let me pass control commands
> >from the HPLaserJet or inkjet interface scripts. My preference
> >would be a network printer accessed via netcat, but the customer
> >uses FacetWIN, which makes it pretty easy to reach windows
> >attached printers from SCO.
>
> Why not use netcat. It works well.
>
I was hoping to use netcat. The only downside is the modest expense
associated with the print server, but the payback is in time
saved in setting things up, and not being dependent on a specific PC
running
for the printer to be operational. I like netcat.

> >I'm finding it harder to discern from the marketing blurbs what is,
> >and is not, a windows-only printer.
>
> If you look at the printer spec and you see that it supports
> DOS and often Apple, then you know it's not a windows only printer.

No mention of DOS, but surprised to see that it works w/Apple's OS X.

Thanks again, Bill. Still curious if anyone has recently installed an
inkjet
printer capable of printing from SCO, using netcat or otherwise, and
if they liked the model enough that they'd recomend it to others.

Regards,
Dan

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