Hi All :)
   We are in the Scoping Stage of a project to convert almost all of our
serial printers (65+) to network printers for use with our 979-200...Yes,
this is related to all those network printing questions I posted a few weeks
ago... the answers to which I am extremely grateful for!! :)

   So, the first question is how to allocate logical device numbers to these
printers.  As of right now, we are going to have at least 5 different
printing modes for these printers: Standard, Greenbar (landscape
PCLLP.HPENV.SYS), "Schedule" (17 pitch 8 lpi), Compressed (LP88.HPENV.SYS)
and Portrait (PCLELITE.HPENV.SYS.   I can see us needing more later...

   What have others done at their shop to make maintenance easy?  Our
printers are in our dental offices so we will be giving them device class
names so that the users can tell them apart, and what mode the output will
come out in!  This is because the user's regularly must input what printer
they want their output to come out on.  We have a constraint of 4 characters
max for a device class name, since some of the software we use is based on
that limit.

  e.g. : Office #1 will have the following Printers:
                            O01   -> Standard Printer
                            O01L -> Greenbar Printer
                            O01P -> Portrait Printer
                            O01S -> Schedule Printer
                            O01C -> Compressed Portrait Printer

  Now, each of these printers will actually be a logical device that is
created with IOCONFIG and thus will be a LDEV number that I assign... I want
to set up a numbering system so that each office has their printers lumped
together... and I want to have room for growth... so I thot (I know
dangerous act!! hehe) I would plan on 20 printer LDEV's per office and that
would allow for growth.

But, I don't know what the down side of this would be... we start our
virtual terminal LDEVs at 2000... so I had thot to start my printer LDEVs at
3000... but with almost 70 printers at 20 ldevs per printer I would quickly
have LDEV numbers up around 4400!  Not all would be used ... but the space
would be there...

So what do you think, all you SysAdmin Gurus??

Thanks,
Art "hmmm.... what have I missed this time? hehe" Bahrs

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