Hello, all- My boss just asked me to help him save about $7k by configuring a Linux machine to function as a RIP server for a Minolta Fiery printer. I'm not necessarily looking for someone to tell me specifically what I need to do (although that would be fine!); but could someone give me a shove in the right direction as far as where I should begin researching this? I'm an NT engineer (not that that's much to crow about!) so I'm at not completely technically stupid, but my *nix experience is limited. Seems like the first order of business is getting Samba talking...? Thanks for the help!

A modest NT guy, wow, what a relief. Two choices for you. One: Go with something simple like routed, which may or may not do what you want depending on your Minolta and how well it and routed follows rip rfc's. In this case downloading routed from your distribution site or a source rpm from another distro should be simple. Afterwards : man routed, or just start it with routed -s, and see if your printer gets any smarter. If this does not work you could try zebra. www.zebra.org, and if you need help with a config I'll send you one.

Just use ip_forwarded

Sorry nobody got your question. I'm looking for the same information though, except I have hardly any understanding at all of RIP and it's functions. It seems like a great way for people in print to charge wild amounts of money for something that should be built in. Most RIP packages I've seen are Windows or Mac based, I haven't found anything open source. I can't help but think it's out there.