Re: Comparing LPD, PJL, SNMP, and IPP

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,
Just curious... How is SNMP better than PJL? Just basically looking at the
Designed function, PJL iwas specifically designed for communicating printers
and SNMP was designed to monitor network devices.  I really don't know the
inner ( bits and bytes ) workings of either protocol.

I would have ranked them in this order...
IPDS - Best Function/Features
PJL - Works well when supported by printer
SNMP - I Can often get this to work when PJL doesn't
IPP - Haven't used this much
LPD/LPR - If all else fails



On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Setting_up_a_printer
>
>    * A *LAN *IPDS device description
>    * A *LAN 3812 SNMP device description
>    * A *LAN 3812 IPP device description
>    * A *LAN 3812 PJL device description
>    * A Remote Output Queue (RMTOUTQ) (also known as LPD/[LPR]]
>
> The list above as been reordered from the list shown in the IBM
> document based upon order of preference. A *LAN *IPDS device is the
> most preferred option for an IBM System i network printer; while a
> Remote Output Queue is the least preferred. The relative preference of
> SNMP, IPP, and PJL are subjective and based upon the SNMP vs IPP
> thread in the comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc newsgroup.
>
> HTH,
> Charles
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:37 PM, jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How would the four protocols be ranked?  I have seen that LPD is probably
> the least desirable, when multiple systems send data.  But what about the
> other three?
> > John McKee
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