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bigearsbilly 11-27-2006 10:14 AM

printer system recommends?
 
I have a lexmark ethernet postcript printer.

I am on solaris 10 x86.

Haven't to it going yet.

What sort of prining set up is the best?
Shall I download CUPS which I am ok with or use the new
style solaris print setup?

tronayne 11-28-2006 06:38 AM

I've found CUPS to be easy to set up (on both Linux and Solaris systems) and that it "just works;" i.e., no fiddling required, thank you. Given that CUPS is the common denominator between your Linux and Solaris boxes, well, I'd lean that way. One suggestion: set your printer to a fixed IP (like 192.168.1.NN or whatever your internal LAN address might be), stick the name and address in /etc/hosts, and life will be good.

bigearsbilly 11-28-2006 06:43 AM

yes, I ponced around trying at least to find some documentation on the ipp server
(Sun is good though there is so much of it to wade through i couldn't find what i needed)
It got late so I gave up, added CUPS and it just worked.

I wanted to try the new system, mainly as it's integrated with SMF; which I think
is one of the best ideas to come along in unix for years and years.


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