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Date:	Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:22:38 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: electronic printer switches

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In <3D13038B.30F0@peterskye.com>, on 06/21/02
at 02:45 AM, Peter Skye said:

>On the TCP/IP side of electronic print servers, can anyone educate me on
>unidirectional vs. bidirectional? I own three; one is part of my SMC
>Barricade 7004BR and two are the ones I bought from the SCOUG parking lot
>guy (courtesy of Steve Carter) about three meetings ago. I haven't
>researched the uni/bidirectional capabilities yet on these things; my
>impression is that a unidirectional TCP/IP print server doesn't send
>printer error messages back to the computer so if something goes wrong I
>guess you just get a timeout error ("Printer not responding"). Anybody
>know any more on this?

No, they all send status back, per the RFC. What probably gets lost is
the model specific messages that a directly connected printer would ship
back to the driver. To access these, you would need a network attached
printer and something like MarkVision.

Steven

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