Re: Comparing LPD, PJL, SNMP, and IPP

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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