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Old 10-30-2001
Question Remote Printing

I am setting up a unix remote print server for approximately 500 printers. We send about 1,000 print jobs per day over the WAN. I am looking for hardware specs. I know I can overkill, but would rather get a sensible machine. Any suggestions?
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Old 10-30-2001
1000 print jobs per day is only about 2 per minute in a typical 8 hour work day. Thats a pretty light load. Any recent machine should be able to handle that pretty easily. Just make sure you have plenty of disk space to spool the jobs.
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Old 10-30-2001
As PxT correctly points out, any modern CPU can manage the load you are talking about. Having plenty of disk space to queue/spool is good. Memory is also helpful. If you are just using a simple, widely supported printer, an inexpensive Linux (or other freeware UNIX) box will work just fine (memory and storage very cheap these days for Intel/AMD architectures).

If your printer requires special drivers or is only supported by certain platforms, you may have a different solution to consider. However, that would be the exception and not the rule. Also, some OS platforms have 'nice GUIs' to administer the printer(s) and print queues; others have simple ASCII files to manage (for example, /etc/printcap ).

Regardless of the OS and platform..... 128MB of memory and a nice 20GB disk cost (together) around $100.00 USD on eBay!! This is more than enough......

Even the new Macs with OS X use standard EIDE drives that are very inexpensive. 80 GB Maxtor drives have been selling on eBay under $200 USD !!
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