IPv6 printing has arrived!
Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 03 January 2008 06:55:12
At work, I successfully installed an HL-4040CN from Brother and it does support static IPv6 addresses and I believe the config has fields for using IPv6 DNS servers (still using IPv4 DNS). I can also report that IPP/Internet printing works from Linux & XP clients. Its supposed to be able to stateless-autoconfigure the address: not sure how to get it to do that.
The 4040CN set us back $400US, but I'm going to suggest to my boss we get a HL-2170W for site use: price is comparable to other B/W's we've gotten, and it won't require a computer setup to use.
http://solutions.brother.com/ipv6/en_us/index.html
P.S. The IPv6 tool from the website wasn't necessary for me: I was able to configure it from the web interface.
IPv6 printing has arrived!
Jeroen Massar on Thursday, 03 January 2008 09:46:16
Actually, HP is the one who had the 'first' here, and has had full IPv6 compliance already for a few years, they even had the below upgrade offer:
http://www.hp.com/united-states/tradein/promo/jetdirect/brochure_final.pdf
http://www.usipv6.com/ppt/NA_V6_Summit_HP_IPv6Deploy.pdf
http://www.hp.com/united-states/tradein/promo/jetdirect/index.html
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IPv6 printing has arrived!
Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 03 January 2008 21:33:41
I guess I should say consumer-level IPv6. I've been aware of HP's support, but its expensive: a quick Google on their JetDirect cards yields prices at $350-$450. The printers worth buying for an office setting is a good several hundred bucks without the cards. |:(
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