[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Hadley Rich]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:20:03 Mark Foster wrote:
> I still have to ask 'why' ?

Well it's useful for us at least.

> Most home users are only printing when at least one of their PC's is
> running.

Yes but it may be a different PC that's running. Which means that you don't 
have to rely on one PC being running all the time.

> Local-Shared printers work across the network fine.
>
> Heck, Local-Shared is still used regularly in the corporate environment...
> someone keen enough to run a Network Printer can buy a JetDirect box or
> something.  (And you still require a print server, right?)

You can print directly to the printer, just like a business network printer.

hads

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