Re: [WinMac] Color Laser Printer to Work with 7200 LAN

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:28:26 -0700

Robert James, Jr. wrote:
>
> > As for a Laser printer brand, I think you'll need to qualify this a bit
> > by specc'ing a price range.
>
> I'm less concerned about price than I am about quality. I guess I'm
> thinking anywhere between $850-$3,000.
>
> Also, I remember Matt Harris saying that HPs and QMS printers
> recently started using Postscript emulation, as opposed to Adobe
> Postscript, which is supposedly better. Which one does Tektronix
> support? Also, Dan suggested the old 5M -- since it's older, does it
> support Adobe Postscript, or emulation?

The 5 we have (and presumably the 5M) supports real postscript.
Truthfully, though, we had a PS clone on a color Xerox printer for
years, and I only saw a couple of problems with it being a emulation
rather than the real thing. Dan tends to look at things from a
publishing/service bureau poiunt of view on these things.

The problems with the old 5 series:

300dpi, on 8 1/2 x 11 only
very finicky about the paper it will take.
toner consumeables aren't the only thing you'll be buying. From where I
sit I see probably around $1000 of maintenance supplies:

Color Developer unit
Toner collection Kit
Black developer unit
Drum unit
Fuser unit

as well as the four color toner bottles.

These all have to be replaced an a fairly regular basis. (fairly long
basis, such as the Drum) but it's not as easy to maintain as a black and
white printer, foex.
   
> Yeah, I know Ethernet is thankfully much quicker. I was mostly
> concerned about needing the Ethernet ports on the 7200s for when we
> eventually (hopefully) connect the LAN to the campus PC network. I
> suppose there's a "through" jack on the hub that would allow for
> that?

Depends on how you end up doing things. Here all the machines connect to
the network through wall jacks back to switches and hubs in the phone
closets. In that case, each machine (including the printer) will connect
via those, and the hub will be uneccesary. If you're just getting a
single connection to the campus backbone, then you'll want to confer
with your campus neworking people about what equipment you'll want to
get.

It really depends on your time frame for connecting to the larger
network, and what that network looks like.

If it's like the campus network here at the UA you may or may not be
able to connect that hub (and associated systems) to the backbone. If
you can, all you need it the configuration parameters (IP addresses,
DHCP stuff, whatever) then plug that into the uplink port on the hub.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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