enclosed my summarty looks like there are loads of boxes
which are coming pretty cheap and if you don't have a PC
to use a a server they look good...
My original question:
> We have for some time now been tring to 'netowrk' Postscript printers
> which are user areas that don't have Sparc machines in close proximity.
> first plan has been to use the PCNFS LPd with Windows and have the
> Postscript device of the Pc printing from PC's and Suns. It seems a bit
> flakey and some print jobs never appear. I am still speaking to sun
> but the idea is that a 'dedicated ' PC should be used just for this task.
> Idea number two is to get a print server box which connects the printer
> directley on the net which seems like a good idea. Now I am interested
> in other peoples ideas two and I'l summarise. These boxes seem expensive
> over here 1K pounds and if any one has recomendations, it would be useful
> to have telephone email numbers as well...
I was mostly interested in devices from Milan and Microplex. You may be able to
find my summary at a sun-managers archive.
Here are the addresses I have for the two companies.
Milan Technology Corporation Tel 415-958-9000
uite 10, Fax 415-968-9046
67 East Evelyn Avenue,
ountain View, Ca
94041
Steve Spring at 408-752-2759
fpinfo@milan.com
pauline@milan.com (Pauline Oliva)
CDN distributor: EMJ at 800-265-7612
contact is Gary Tyreman
Milan Fastport Network print server
Appears to have 2 serial and 1 parallel port
Microplex Systems Ltd., Tel 800-665-7798
265 East First Avenue, Tel 604-875-1461
Vancouver, BC Fax 604-875-9029
Canada
V5T 1A7
info@microplex.com
support@microplex.com
From: kdp@microplex.com (Kim Parker) sales rep
ftp to microplex.com:m200v2
moved to ftp.uu.net:vendor/microplex
M200 TCP/IP printer adapter
1 50,000 Bytes/sec parallel port
2 38.4 kbps serial ports
Here are the sun-managers archives I know of
sun-managers-archives
ftp.cs.toronto.edu:sun-managers
eecs.nwu.edu
aurora.latech.edu:Archives/Sun Managers (gopher)
If you have NCD X-terminals you can use their serial ports as printer ports.
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Birger A. Wathne S K R I V E R V I K Skrivervik Data A/S
+-------------------+ Thormoehlensgt. 55
email: birger@sdata.no | D A T A| N-5008 BERGEN
+-------------------+ Tel: +47 5 543740
Fax: +47 5 322853
>We have for some time now been tring to 'netowrk' Postscript printers
>which are user areas that don't have Sparc machines in close proximity.
>first plan has been to use the PCNFS LPd with Windows and have the
>Postscript device of the Pc printing from PC's and Suns. It seems a bit
>flakey and some print jobs never appear. I am still speaking to sun
>but the idea is that a 'dedicated ' PC should be used just for this task.
>Idea number two is to get a print server box which connects the printer
>directley on the net which seems like a good idea. Now I am interested
>in other peoples ideas two and I'l summarise. These boxes seem expensive
>over here 1K pounds and if any one has recomendations, it would be useful
>to have telephone email numbers as well...
What we do here is have an Ethernet to Appletalk bridge, and print using
SunTops running on the Sun. The printers are connected via appletalk (if
your printers don't have appletalk, then this doesn't help you), and we
have full connectivity between our Suns, printers, and Macs. Also, since
we have our own company WAN, all tied together with Cisco's, we have full
appletalk connectivity to all our sites around the world. I can print a
file from a Sun, to a printer in Zimbabwe (I think we have an office over
ther :-)
Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies ATE UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276
San Jose, Ca. 95110 Voice: (408)437-5254 FAX: (408)437-5246
The MiLAN boxes seem to work pretty good - not sure what current price is.
For HP printers, I prefer the HP network card since this eliminates one of
the vendors and minimizes support pain.
Chris
Prices have recent;y fallen to $400 with educational discounts at one
local vendor (R&D: 206-882-8490) and I don't think even with the pounds current
problems it should cost #1000.
These are US prices of course (and we're 8 hours behind you).
--
- dave fetrow- fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
"Never underestimate the ability of large potential profits to
make technically inferior technology into a workable standard."
>
We use a dedicated old 286 to serve two printers that get fairly heavy
usage. It works w/o a hitch....
Jeff
--
Jeff's Oasis at Home. Jeff can also be reached at work at:
jwasilko@airage.com
We've been using MiLAN's printserver called Fastport. Supports one
parallel and one serial device (simultaneously, I think). Costs under
$1000 in U.S.!
MiLAN's phone number: (408) 752-2770
FAX: (408) 752-2790
Sales Dept. (408) 752-2770
Address: MiLAN Technology
894 Ross Drive, Suite 105
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
email: inqinfo@milan.com
Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with MiLAN. Just a happy
customer...
kjv
--
Kari Vaaranen * (So long, and thanks for all the fish!)
Valmet-Tampella, Inc. * email INTERNET : kjv@tampella.fi
P.O.BOX 267, SF-33101 * Phone internat. : +358 31 2412434
Tampere, FINLAND * Telefax internat.: +358 31 2412699
we are using Ip spooling devices from Axis with
up to two centronics + two V.24 interfaces
per devices, which run quite good. WE use these devices
for printers, which only have centronics or where two
or more printers are "close" together.
Price: ca. 4500.- DM
The HP III si printers, which stand alone are connected via
the HP ethernet cards, which are quite inexpensive and fast.
Price: ca. 1000 DM
Karl-Jose Filler Voice: +49-911-526-2870
Philips Kommunikations E-Mail: pla_jfi@pkinbg.uucp
Industrie Ag pla_jfi@pki-nbg.philips.de
D-8500 Nuernberg Germany
Thanks for your interest in our product line. The FastPort is a very good
product for your configuration. It is equipped with 10Base2, 10Base5, and
10BaseT ports. There are two printer ports; one parallel and one serial.
FastPort works in a UNIX environment, and we offer source code if you have
a unique operating system. FastPort can be spooled directly under FTP
software's TCP/IP using public domain utility "iprint" which is bundled with
FTP. We support TCP/IP, but by the end of this year we will begin shipping
Novell IPX, and FastPort will be a dual protocol. We have two UK resellers
of our product: They are Q Associates at 44 635 248181. The contact is
either David Cue or Andy Griffiths. Also PCI resells our product. The
contact is Dave Sheppard at 44 793 618130. Please don't hesitate to contact
me if you require any further information. My direct line is 408-752-2757
and my email is pauline@milan.com. Regards, Pauline Turski/Account Mgr/
Int'l Sales.
We run our printers on Cisco terminal servers. Transcript allows you
to specify that a printer is at a particular IP address and port
number. This works perfectly for a terminal server. Transcript will
connect to the port that has the printer hanging on it.
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