[Sunhelp] Printer Companies

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> To whom it may concern,
> 
> 	I have a Sun Ultra 10 workstation and I wish to purchase a
> printer that I can connect to this workstation and share it between
> this box, my Linux workstation, and my wife's G3 workstation. I have a
> budget of $500. I am not certain of a company that sells Solaris/Sparc
> compatible printers and I doubt I could just go buy one at Best Buy.
> 	Anything thoughts or opinions would be helpful.

Let's get this straight:

One Ultra 10 with Solaris
One PC with Linux
One G3 Mac

This is what I would do:

Get a decent laser printer from Best Buy, and hook it up to the PC.  Use
lpr's capability to print on another host running lpd to print from the
Sun.  It might help to have the same lpr software under Solaris and Linux;
I like to use LPRng.  I can find the URL for that if you have trouble
locating it.

To print from the Mac (running MacOS 8.something, I assume), put netatalk
on the Linux system.

Everything should be connected with ethernet, of course.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein