Where the fuck they found such ancient hardware in 2022??? Don’t they feel shame in charging this much money for this shit?
This should have no problem printing PDFs of any size.
Our printer at work is fancy and has a haswell based pentium and a whole 4 gigs of ram. It’s only a little over 10 years old hardware.
The printer also supports vnc for some reason. I haven’t figured out why.
So you can game on it
Can it play doom?
Same thing with retail POS terminals. Old weak system , out of date software , no security updates, limited support response. Yet it’s must be secure and isolated… maybe it needs to be isolated because they know it’s not secure on its own…
POS systems all live up to their acronyms. Intel Atom (or the lowest end chinesium) CPUs, barely enough RAM to function, an out of date build of Windows (or Android), and software that feels like it was designed in 1993 and never grew out of that era. Often requiring a screen resolution of 800x600 for PC on VGA touch displays that feel like they’re 25 years old, and force disable all ipv6 because we don’t want to risk the network working better than the recommended static ipv4 setup from hell.
I forgot about the 800x600. We have windows scaling set up to stretch and fill a nice 1920x1080 fhd touch screen. Had to find some creative solutions to allow our security software and policies to work.
More power, current hardware, better experience, less money. Doesn’t sound possible.
Well? Why does it choke?
I worked in that industry (for a company that used Fiery print controllers with some products), and this is standard practice. Our machines took forever to boot up because of limited RAM and slow CPUs. Even their latest machines, which we have at my current employer, struggle. One can only imagine what newer ones will be like with the current RAM situation.
Printers of this range back in the day could use a print server of your choosing.
RAM prices, 'mrite?
