CUPS on hp-ux 11 Itanium based systems

[Johan Bernhardsson]

Was great to hear. I will perform tests during this week to use it as a client for 2000 printers on a testbed.

I will see if i can post the results here.

/Johan "SmallOne" Bernhardsson

> for all readers:
>
> (a detailed answer has been written to Michael Grote)
>
>
> I'm not able to publish all informations here, so you get a short summary:
>
>
> There exists a working CUPS installation, where the CUPS daemon on HP-UX
> acts as client for browsing, load-balancing and fail-over.
>
> CUPS works at least on following versions:
> HP-UX 11.00 (PA-RISC)
> HP-UX 11.11 (PA-RISC)
> HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2)
>
> We are using about 300 printers at the moment. Another 300 will follow in
> the next months.
>
> CUPS can also act as server on HP-UX (but we didn't do much tests, because
> we don't need).
>
>
> During the last year we had very few problems with CUPS and it improves our
> printing environment a lot.
>
> Altogether it was a good decision.  :)
>
>
> best regards!
> Bernd
>