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S.J. Borrill (sjb42@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:

: The next version of !Printers with RO3.7 will include a option for 'non-
: spooling' network printers. Philip Hazel lpr route (see elsewhere in this
: thread) doesn't really give you much advantage over the NFS route. To use
: the NFS route all you really need is a UN*X box to do printer spooling and
: also !Omni or !NFSfiler. It is very reliable.

Agreed, but some system administrators are rather wary of the security
risks involved in running NFS at all on UNIX servers. Quite rightly so,
IMHO. But they *are* prepared to accept "lpd/lpr" print requests because
they are running demons that provide enough checks to keep them happy,
and the protocol has *much* fewer opportunities for security breaches.
And yes, I do know there are still some!

I don't know about the particular printer mentioned, but I do know that
the general-purpose Ethernet printer adaptors sold under the AXIS name
support the lpd/lpr protocol directly (amongst a slew of others), and
since they use standard parallel and serial interfaces to drive the
printers can be used with almost any printer. A way of talkinig
directly to such a printer adaptor without going through a spooling
server can be very helpful.

: BTW. The new version of !Printers is actually being aimed at just that
: printer by Xemplar.

It would be interesting to know which of the several protocols supported
by that printer they propose to use...

					David Pick