Re: TCP/IP network printing idea for GS/OS

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Jan 12, 2:17 pm, Warren Ernst <wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> External JetDirect adapters are less than $20 on ebay, and there are
> Parallel and USB versions out there.
>
> While I agree that Samba/Windows NetBEUI print support is good,
> JetDirect printing support would be excellent too. In this era, it is
> fair to say that most broadband users already have a router with
> available ethernet jacks into which an inexpensive JetDirect can be
> plugged, allowing for (potentially) easy and cheap network printing
> for our GSes.
>
> -Warr

Also, because JetDirect is the simplest network printing protocol,
just raw data being dumped into a TCP port, you'd pretty much have to
do everything to implement it, to implement any other print protocols.