We may not be able to access all of the fancy features on the copier but we can do duplex and multiple copies at one time and that covers 99.9 % of my teachers' needs. Between Gutenprint and PCL, we do just fine. They don't seem to understand the difference between old macs and OSX. That was in 10.5.8 though.Īnd don't let your copier people tell you Mac's can't print to their copiers unless you pay boatloads extra for the PostScript add-on for the copier. A few HP lasers get a little bucky - the 4250n was a bugger until I loaded the specific driver for it. I'd even let them keep their more expensive monitors! :)Īs far as printing goes, if you are running 10.6, you can get decent results with the generic postscript and generic PCL print drivers on MOST printers. I bet that if management gave them cash in their pocket for the price difference between PC and Mac workstations that they would change their tune. We have such whiners that they literally would leave the job if they were forced to use a PC, so management doesn't force them into a cheaper alternative. That's mainly in IT time though, since any problem with a Mac is generally more poorly documented due to the much smaller number of people out there using them, which makes many fewer Google hits when looking for answers. The Macs I've got here also take a lot more maintenance than the PCs do. I still don't see anything these new Macs do that a PC won't do, for half the hardware cost. A mobile account gets generated and a new profile gets generated. I was able to get the 10.6 machines to fully integrate into AD, and by that I mean that any domain user can login to the machines. I almost prefer that since we can at least see them. As a result, there's tons one "._" files floating around our network. I had to disable that here, though, as not all our machines were able to go to 10.6. However, Snow Leopard makes a big jump in that it uses SMB extended attributes to store the resource forks that have historically been such garbage. I've been here since people were on 10.2 and as long as they connect to network shares as smb://servername/sharename there haven't been huge problems. Snow Leopard, 10.6 does the best job of integrating.
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