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Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:33:12 PST7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: Digi 3400

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On 3/15/02, Jordan Fox wrote, in part:
>> Recently I came across a few new, old-stock (circa 1996) DIGI 3410X
>> pocket print servers. Smaller than a pack of cigarettes, the 3410X
>> attaches right to the printer's Centronics port and has its own
>> wall-wart 5V power supply, drawing about 3 Watts total. This
>> 10MB/s device is plenty fast enough for a printer.
>
>Thanks again for the heads up on this. So the cabling becomes what --
>Computer ==> Hub ==> Digi ==> Printer, instead of Computer ==> Printer ?
>Ethernet cable replacing Parallel printer cable ?

Yes. And the NIC IRQ serves any number of newtorked printers. IRQ 7
is now free for whatever and the parallel port is free for a dongle,
or a ZIP, or ....

>> Setup is by Telnet to the print server's settable IP address on port 2002,
>> rather reminiscent of BBS-ing. ... It supports ALL
>> the desirable protocols. The firmware is easily flash-upgradable;
>> the newest release is 1/9/2002 and added DHCP to my 3410X.
>
>Which file is the latest firmware, by the way ?

At the expense of being _too_ obvious, it's the one with the latest date! :-)

ftp://ftp.milan.com/pub/printSrv/firmware/3400X/

file is: 34fp621.CHX, 554 KB, dated 11Jan2002 (internal file date is earlier, 09Jan)

>> I chose NOT to use the included Windows LPR program and instead use
>> the FREE IBM LPR Remote Printing Client for Windows 95, available
>> for downloading from the www.printers.ibm.com (works on W98 too!).
>How 'bout for NT / W2K ?

TCP/IP printing is included with the NT product line, including NT4, W2k,
XP, etc. Any/all forms of Unix too. Dunno about MACs, but I _think_ so.

>> Need I mention? OS/2 comes with TCP/IP printing -- nothing else needed.
>Good. But we'd need to enable something or other, I imagine.

You must enable (and setup) lpr/lpd printing in the TCP/IP notebook. 8 are enabled
by default. Also, you must start the lprportd daemon (in the TCP/IP notebook).

>How many of these gizmos do you run in your setup ?
>One for each printer ? >Jordan

Yes, although 3-port print servers are only a few dollars more. I would have
bought a 3-port, since all my printers are in ONE place, but I didn't plan
in advance -- it just sort of happened over time.

I've bought 4 external print servers over the past two years. One HP170X, which
is bigger, but I like a lot, one inside my SMC7004BR, the re-branded Digi that
came with my Xerox NC20 (thanks Tony!), and the Digi 3410X I mentioned, which
I picked up at the last SCOUG meeting (Bill DELIVERED it!).

I have only three printers in active use at this instant, so the SMC7004BR's
print server is unused, but ready to return to immediate service, as soon as I find
the shelf space for another printer (and another printer I can't live without).

I'll _try_ to remember to bring in the Digi 3410X to the SCOUG meeting on Saturday.
I'm hoping/planning to attend.

--Steve

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