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On 10/12/11 16:44, bad apple wrote: > > Of course, if you want a networked printer (as in, physically wired via > cat5 instead of wifi) on the cheap, any HP model you can get your hands > on with a parallel port can be hooked up to a jetdirect box which you > could get from ebay for pennies these days. It's a bit old-school - you > have to configure them via telnet (!) just for a start - but I did > hundreds of older HP laser printers like this when rationalising the > printer setup at Kings College London a few years back. Cheap, cheerful > and efficient and prevents AD getting littered with a million printer > queues hanging off of random workstations. Some of the later/nicer > jetdirects have some pretty decent management software and even support > WOL as well I believe. > > Cheers, > > Mat > When I started this thread what I hoped for was something like 'I have used printer xyz for a while now, it is great (or possibly, don't go near it)'. Still, the discussions have been interesting and useful. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq