Re: Re: Re: PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1

I'd imagine that keeping the printer drivers up to speed on the HTML "standards" would be more difficult than converting the whole shebang into PostScript in the first place:o) i.e. it might be nifty but entirely undpendable. lpd is reliable and easy to use- I see no excuse not to use it. While I agree it might be amusing, it wouldn't be much more than that.... Update: Oh. sorry, I read it too quickly. But I still disagree. Implementing a full-blown HTTP server wouldn't be too slick either- it's better to go through drivers. Such a server would completely complication any user authentication...

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Re: Re: Re: Re: PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1 by extremely (Priest) on Nov 18, 2000 at 12:47 UTC
At my last job we had a fine Lexmark printer that would allow FTP: Ruby#~> ftp elroy.xxxx.xxx Connected to elroy.xxxx.xxx 220 FTP server: Lexmark Optra N Laser Printer ready Name (elroy.xxxx.xxx:root): 230 user root logged in ftp> quit 221 Goodbye And is still wide open to the internet because they never remember to set the root password after the kung-fu reset wipes the prom. Aside from that in no way does having FTP help you unless you have already prepared your "document" for printing with either "epson", "postscript", "wingraphics", or "lexmarkian" formats. (actually I think some can do PDF too). Having a HTTP file-upload "CGI" in there would be pretty cool and in-fact some printers on the market allow HTTP configuration, testing, and job loading already. You just upload an already prepared print format and off you go! Sexy and fun and easily abused if people keep erasing the root password when they deep-reset the machine. And what printer does authentication? One with a builtin print-spooler? Why couldn't the HTTPd and FTPd both use the same authentication set as the built-in print-spooler? -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: PRINT AN IMAGE TO LPT1 by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Nov 18, 2000 at 05:12 UTC
Just because it uses HTTP doesn't mean it has to speak HTML. HTTP is pretty standard and held at version 1.1 for several years... I didn't mean to suggest that printers should render HTML (though that might be nifty as well).. :)	[reply]