Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] IP-only netatalk [formerly:Network Server 700 and netatalk]
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Wed Apr 08 1998 - 23:29:15 EDT
Is there any way to get UNIX to communicate better with the printer? I am
curious if anyone has written anything that isn't built around line
printers.
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Donald Lee wrote:
> >Q: what do i lose by going to tcp/ip only?
> >A: tcp/ip based networks don't advertise services. as a result,
> > you'll need to know the server/printer to which you want to
> > connect.
>
> Printing is also somewhat degraded. The UNIX lpd has no "backchannel" so
> the more intelligent things done by appletalk printers, like telling you about
> paper shortages, font downloading, querying for PPD stuff and so forth are
> not possible. For the most part, this simply means that you have to
> produce "conservative" postscript, and make guesses about what's at the
> other end of the connection, but there are a bunch of other things
> you simply can't do with current protocols.
>
> -dgl-
>
>
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