From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gk2w4-0002Ds-2J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:23:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAEIJXSN016743; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:19:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAEIELEU007559 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:14:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7881A64EA0 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:14:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.556 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.556 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.043, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Hwaiy+cCGt44 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F090465274 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk2ma-0005Je-7H for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:13:18 +0100 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:13:16 +0100 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:13:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] printing protocols Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1163466519.11329.123.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060910) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: cbe07ab9-7c25-4d80-8e4e-1371ec818c04 X-Archives-Hash: db3d1764b8a9040f56314a063aa852ca Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > I'm playing around with a new printer at work (Xerox Document Center > C360). It's a bit of a monster, but it does have some good features. > Anyway, I'm wondering what protocol I should use to talk to it? I did a > port scan and found these ports open: > 80 http > 111 sunrpc > 139 netbios-ssn > 515 printer > 631 ipp > 1025 ? > 1605 ? Hello Iain, ipp (631) gets my vote. You can use cups with ipp and here's some docs, should you not be successful via the cups gui interfaces [1,2] Here's a simple example I use to get printing up on new systems: (/etc/cups/printers.conf) Info LaserJet DeviceURI socket://192.168.2.3 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 The gui in cups then picks up the config and you can use the gui to manage the printer hereafter. The gui via cups is not fully robust, in my experience. YMMV. More elaborate configs are often warranted. This simple config gets the ethernet on a HP laserjet working, very quickly. After it initially prints, I usually comb the net for support of the advanced features you want/need. > I've so far tried printing via a samba share on our server, which seems > to work; and direct using ipp, which worked. > My question is really what's the difference? Are some features > supported better on some protocols? Are some faster / less resource > intensive? Dunno if anyone has benchmarked these choices.... > I'm using cups and gimp-print to get the driver for it. > I'd appreciate any info. Thanks! Here are a few more resources to ponder: [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml#cups [2] http://localhost:631/sam.html [3] http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/kdeprint/cups-ipp-support.html [4] http://linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi [5] http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html [6] http://www.cups.org/windows/ hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list