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Re: Zero Configuration Printers in Terminal Room

2005-08-01 07:49:35
While Stewart is absolutely 100% correct from a technical standpoint, we'd really appreciate it if you didn't do that. We very specifically didn't advertise the addresses of the printers directly, but rather pointed everyone at a print spooler. This is for several reasons. First, this gives the terminal room staff more of an ability to clear out large or broken jobs if something goes awry. Secondly, it allows for a much deeper queue, should a big job or two come in at a peek printing time. Finally, the Terminal_Room_Printers queue distributes jobs across both printers.

So, if making those few extra clicks don't overtax people too much, we'd greatly appreciate following the instructions as distributed.

    Thanks!

    - Jim

On Aug 1, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Stuart Cheshire wrote:

At IETF 63 in Paris, the helpful terminal room people are, as is
customary, distributing sheets of paper with instructions saying how to
set up printing on various different operating systems.

This quick email is just to point out that the Mac users here don't
actually need to follow the printing instructions on that sheet. If
you're using a Mac, you don't need to open System Preferences, or add,
set up, or configure anything. When you plug your laptop into one of the Ethernet connections in the terminal room area and bring up the "Print"
dialog box in any application, you'll see that the two HP printers are
already there, as if by magic, in the "Printer" popup menu, under the
"Bonjour" heading. They call themselves Term-01 and Term-02.

All network printers manufactured in the last year or two by HP, or
pretty much any other printer maker, do this.

Windows users can get Bonjour for Windows from
<http://www.apple.com/bonjour>

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire(_at_)apple(_dot_)com>


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