[Suns-at-Home] What printer

[Geoff Blake]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> Looking at print servers, the odd thing seems to be is that very few of
> them actually provide a USB interface (which is odd, because nearly all
> printers available now have USB-only). In fact, the only two that seem to
> be around are the Jetdirect 175x and the D-Link DP-301U.
>
> The Jetdirect seems excellent for my puspose, but is conspicuously lacking
> on Ebay-UK. The D-Link seems to support LPD in some vague manner, but no
> evidence that it would work on Solaris. Anyone with experience of that?

I have a Dlink print hub (DP-301P IIRC) running at work,
supporting a couple of HP Laserjet printers via parallel ports. I
don't know about Solaris, but the DP-301 is supporting CUPS from
Debian Linux and RPRINT from a Novell system. There are also a
couple of window boxes that connect to it using LPR.

To date, I have not had any problems with it. I would imagine that
same could apply to a USB ported hub.

HTH

Geoff
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