HP LaserJet 2420n and Queue Based Printing?

I'm looking at a new workgroup printer and am leaning towards the HP
LaserJet 2420n
The price is about right, I'm sticking with HP, and this seems to be the
replacement for the 2100, 2200, and 2300 series which I liked a lot.
It has a built in JetDirect, although I can't find which model.
HP's site says this:
Compatible Network Operating Systems:
Via HP Jetdirect print servers: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000,
XP, XP 64-Bit, Server 2003; Novell NetWare 3.2, 4.2, 5.x, 6.x; Apple Mac OS
8.6 and later; Red Hat Linux 6.x and later; SuSE Linux 6.x and later; HP-UX
10.20, 11.x; Solaris 2.5x, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (SPARC systems only); IBM AIX
3.2.5 and later; MPE-iX, Terminal server/Citrix
Note that NetWare 4.2 (and so also 4.11) is listed.
That is the only mention of NetWare I can find about this printer. Does
anyone out there have one already? Can it be used with Queue Based (non-
NDPS) Printing? Does the built in JetDirect support this natively?
Thanks for your help,
AZC

I just installed one of these on our network with queue bases services using
the web interface and it worked, once I figured out how to declare the
context for the queue.
Rui
"Andrew Z Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Xk7De.1833$[email protected]..
> I'm looking at a new workgroup printer and am leaning towards the HP
> LaserJet 2420n
>
> The price is about right, I'm sticking with HP, and this seems to be the
> replacement for the 2100, 2200, and 2300 series which I liked a lot.
>
> It has a built in JetDirect, although I can't find which model.
>
> HP's site says this:
>
> Compatible Network Operating Systems:
> Via HP Jetdirect print servers: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000,
> XP, XP 64-Bit, Server 2003; Novell NetWare 3.2, 4.2, 5.x, 6.x; Apple Mac
> OS
> 8.6 and later; Red Hat Linux 6.x and later; SuSE Linux 6.x and later;
> HP-UX
> 10.20, 11.x; Solaris 2.5x, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (SPARC systems only); IBM
> AIX
> 3.2.5 and later; MPE-iX, Terminal server/Citrix
>
> Note that NetWare 4.2 (and so also 4.11) is listed.
>
> That is the only mention of NetWare I can find about this printer. Does
> anyone out there have one already? Can it be used with Queue Based (non-
> NDPS) Printing? Does the built in JetDirect support this natively?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
> --
> AZC
>

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Tommyc17,
> I am testing some Sharp MFP's and am unable to get them working using
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