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- Posted-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 22:05 EST
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- Organization: Proteon, Inc., Westborough, MA 01581 [(508)898-2800]
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:42:00 EST
- Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
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- From: Fund@RELAY.PROTEON.COM
- Subject: Re: NETSprint and JETSprint
- Lines: 53
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- >I've been having problems with PServer working properly with my HP LJ3si and
- >today in the mail an ad for the netsprint and jetsprint print server devices
- >arrived. If you have used them on your network, what do you think of them?
- >Are they any faster at printing than PServer? Do they have bugs or oddities
- >in the way they print stuff? And I'd also like to know if they would work
- >with a plotter, rather than a printer. Would they work on a HP pen plotter?
-
- >Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
- >Loren Miller
- >+++++++++++++++++++++++23
- >Loren Miller LOREN@wmkt.wharton.upenn.edu
-
- NetSprint and JetSprint are two new products from ASP.
-
- I am testing one of their units right now.
-
- The things I liked (according to the literature) was the ability of
- these devices to support up to 16 servers (the HP board supports only
- 1 server) and the ability to automatically sense and switch between
- PCL and PostScript modes.
-
- The first beta unit I received some weeks ago had timing problems that
- caused the unit to occasionally be seen and then not be seen on the
- network. Not very good.
-
- I received a second unit several weeks ago that fixed that problem.
-
- The unit is fast and printed reliably, but I could not get it to switch
- modes as it was supposed to. I left this unit in unswitchable PostScript
- mode.
-
- I have just received a EPROM update that now addresses (so ASP says)
- the switching issue. I will get that sucker installed within the week
- and report back.
-
- As far as configuration and setup is concerned, ASPs utility and PCONSOLE
- are a snap. Two minutes and its installed.
-
- So, the bottom line is that these units have potential. The jury is out
- until I get this latest fix in.
-
- ... Also being evaluated at this time is the new Digital Products line
- of print servers. Unfortunately the units that I really would like,
- those that simultaneously support multiple servers and multiple
- protocols (IPX, AppleTalk and IP) won't be released till several
- months into next year. Oh well.
-
- Glenn Fund Internet: Fund@Relay.proteon.com
- Principal Research Specialist CompuServe: 75170,1060
- Lockheed Sanders cc:Mail Fund at Proteonwebo
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- Nashua, NH 03061 Novell Users Group.
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