[NTLUG:Discuss] USB printer?

Wayne Walker wwalker at bybent.com
Fri Jun 23 12:53:00 CDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:48:15PM -0500, steve wrote:
> How well are these various options supported in SuSE 9.3 ?
> 
> (If all else faile, I can move the printer onto my firewall
> machine and use remote printing - but that's running some
> incredibly ancient version of Linux and has been stripped of
> all non-essential software - so making this work would be a
> considerable time-burden that I really don't want to face!)
Do that.  BUT.  set up the printer as RAW on the firewall.  Then all
the complex stuff happens on the SuSE box.

OR.  Get an old jet direct box and make it a networked printer.  Most
HPs behave very well on the other side of a jet direct.

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