On 02/17/2016 12:49, Chris Bennett wrote:
After reading up on printers in use, I discovered that there is
significant use of line printers due to their very low cost of
consumables, production of a very long lasting output, unlike
laser/thermal/inkjet printers and high reliability.
Is anyone using these in a high volume output setting (not like a
restaurant or other low volume)?
If not using, but would like to, what is broken, missing or otherwise
wrong with our lpd/lpr system?
I do see that lpc, lpq, lprm are dinosaurs and have to be made extinct
and replaced with something more functional with more information output
and better capabilities.
Thanks,
Chris Bennett
I'm not sure what measure of "better" you're trying to apply.
lpr et al. don't have a GUI. One could be wrapped around them.
They don't do dynamic autoconfiguration.
In an industrial environment autoconfiguration can be very bad.
(examples like directing confidential output somewhere unexpected)
I worked for a company that ran as many IBM 1403 printers as
they could buy. Line printers are very simple to run.
They don't need elaborate output filters.
The only function I can think of that lpr doesn't have is
the capability to request a forms change and wait until
it has been done. That could be an entirely separate subsystem
invoked by lpr.
A laptop floating in many places could use something
complex like autoconfigure. Again, that could be wrapped
around lpr et al.
Geoff Steckel
