Subj : Looking for some printer ideas.
To   : Peter Knapper
From : David Calafrancesco
Date : Sat May 21 2005 12:45 am

Peter Knapper wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 PK> Hi David,

 DC> Go to eBay, 

 PK> Unfortunately, from this part of the world eBay is not an
 PK> otion.........;-( 

Why? I saw all kinds of Lexmark Optra laser printers for Australia. For me, 
paying to have it shipped from Australia to the USA would have been a tad bit 
excessive. 


 DC> (or get a seperate marknet card). 

 PK> And marknets are not exactly cheap either...

Again... see lots of them in AU. 

 DC> Note that you don't add a network printer, but 
 DC> instead add a port which is an IP address. The printer 
 DC> queue name for the LP printer is usually irrelevant for 
 DC> anything that doesn't have multiple printers. I usually 
 DC> just use lp for the queue name. 

 PK> And this is what I was expecting, but the results have been less
 PK> than... productive.......;-)

Bummer... there are new USB/Ether print servers that I have heard work just 
fine for LP printing. I'd avoid like the plague any print server that doesn't 
do LP. 

Good luck... 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

.... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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