On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 22:42 -0700, Jack Bates wrote: > On 12/05/12 05:37 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > On 28/04/12 05:54, Jack Bates wrote: > >> What hardware do you recommend for use as a print server? > > > > Depends are to wanting to render the jobs or just pour them down a usb > > port to the printer? > > Hi and thanks Tim, my principle goal is to make configuring printers on > client machines as simple and reliable as possible. Client machines are > running all operating systems (including Windows) so I think this > implies running Samba + CUPS on print servers so nmbd can publish > printers to Windows clients without installing any additional software > on the clients? > > I think running CUPS implies rendering the jobs?
I would look at some of the mini and pico itx boards with an atom on them as they have a lot more CPU grunt than the sort of embedded boards you are thinking of. If you want something that will just take in a pre-rendered job from the network and pour it down a usb port then something even as small as a TPLink 703 should be fine. -- Tim Fletcher <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
