unidirectional printer

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Mike - EMAIL IGNORED

My new Vigor 2910G router provides a USB port
for a printer. The documentation indicates that
a "unidirectional printer" is required. Is this
good? What might the functional limitations be?
Thanks for your advice.
Mike.
 
Mike said:
My new Vigor 2910G router provides a USB port
for a printer. The documentation indicates that
a "unidirectional printer" is required. Is this
good? What might the functional limitations be?
Thanks for your advice.
Mike.
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Hi

I imagine that it means that the device cannot relay any information back
from the printer to the host computer, and the printer must be happy to
function on the end of a dumb spooler.

Function limitations may include not being able to read printer status, ink
levels and suchlike and possibly confusing the Windows printer driver
slightly, though it should basically work.

It is probably going to provide simple LPD, HP JetDirect (port 9100) or
maybe IPP emulation - so the host computer will send a job to some-ip:9100
for example, and other than knowing the data was received by the Vigor, it
will have no idea as to the state of the print job or the printer.

In fact, I think it is an LPD interface - see this:

http://draytek.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=25

Should still basically work though - the Vigor is acting as an old-style
unix print server.

HTH

Tim
 
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