Re: [Lprng-devel] Does LPRng work with Network printers?

[Joe F. <jf...@fe...>]

On Mon, November 25, 2013 22:25, Joe Feise wrote:
> Craig Small wrote on 11/25/2013 07:55 PM:
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 07:18:46PM -0800, Joe Feise wrote:
>>> CUPS will need to be disabled, and if not already on your system
>>> LPRng printing software package will need to be installed.
>>> This can be downloaded at www.LPRng.org"
>> Wow, I've never seen it that way around before.
>
> Yeah, this was a new one for me as well ;)
>
>> Is this a consumer grade printer or some sort of monster-sized one?
>
> For small/home office use. Color laser multifunction. I don't like ink
> printers.
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00684VF3S

Some update to this, now that the dust has settled for me ;)
The printer I originally looked at, the Ricoh Aficio SP C240SF, is
somewhat limited. It supports LPRng as protocol, but it requires a Windows
machine to print, because it only understands the Windows GDI output. In
other words, on a Linux box it is only usable through a Samba print
server.

I ended up with the C242SF, which unlike the C240SF supports Postscript
and PCL, making it a printer usable from everywhere (and still having
LPRng support.)

-Joe