[WinMac] Re: Cross Platform printer serving and accounting.

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:56:43 -0500

        Personally, I like the LaserJet 4Si or 5Si series laser printers: They are
bulletproof. Just make sure you get the PostScript option, which gives you
AppleTalk as well. This makes administering it a LOT easier, since
AppleTalk has PAP (Printer Access Protocol) built in; i.e. the NT Server
acting as a spooler doesn't need to be hooked up via parallel cable - The
communications link between the spooler and the printer is via AppleTalk...
And it works VERY well, too!

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 11:58 AM 12/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I would like to move away from maintaining lots of individual printers and
>toward a centralized printing solution and have come here for the usual
>wealth of information and suggestions. Our situation is an NT domain for
>user and group management and several NT servers capable of doing print
>server duty (but I'm willing to look at a linux based solution.) Clients are
>a mix of 2/3 NT and 1/3 Macs with a sprinkle of Linux machines. What I want
>to be able to do is host a nice laser printer and a color inkjet with the
>ability to maintain accounting information, specifically a per account page
>count, for each printer. Can someone recommend printer server and/or
>accounting software that will do this and uses our existing NT user
>accounts?
>
>Recommendations for an office laser printer and an inkjet would be
>appreciated as well. I'm inclined to go with the HP 4000 series for the
>laser and a networked epson for the inkjet.
>
>Thanks,
>
>jbh
>
>John Hanks
>System Administrator
>Dept. of Biology
>Utah State University
>
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