RE: [WinMac] Re: TCP/IP printing
Jorge Herrera(jherrera[at]one.net)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:48:45 -0400
IT doesn't do anything more, execpt that the code in Microsoft's solution
has some problems. (At least at that time, I've never looked back)
Specifically to print from a *nix box, you have to specify "-0 l" as a
command switch, that is easy to do on the command line, but the application
we were using on an SGI did not allow me to modify the lpr command. (I did
not have root access). using the niprint, everything worked, plus it has a
nice display and a log of the print jobs, plus it's cheap. :)
- Jorge
I had a LOT of missed jobs with the Msoft Code, none with the Network
Instruments program.
If the NT box can see it, Niprint can share it thru IP.
Download it and try it out, they have a 21 day demo on their site.
http://www.netinst.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu]On Behalf Of Thomas Roth
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 8:43 AM
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Subject: [WinMac] Re: TCP/IP printing
>
>
> >From: "Jorge Herrera" <jherrera@one.net>
> >Another solution would be to replace the LPR code in NT with a
> third-party
> >product called NIprint from http://www.netinst.com $29.00
> >
> ...snip...
> >
> >BTW, I have not tried this, but the new Apple Laserprinter
> drivers implement
> >LPR, this would (in theory) be a LOT faster that Appletalk, you
> might want
> >to give it a try.
>
> Jorge,
>
> What does the NIprint do that Microsoft's doesn't? The reason I ask is
> that when we first got our NT server up and running I tried to
> setup all of
> our later model Apple LaserWriters to print via IP. Some of them worked
> fine, others I kept getting PostScript errors. Big difference in speed
> though. I could watch the print jobs spool out to the LaserWriters that
> were still communicating via AppleTalk but the ones communicating with the
> server via IP just zipped right out of the print queue in a second. I
> thought however that might have also been the cause of the PostScript
> errors if the printers couldn't buffer all that data fast enough.
>
> We also have an HP DesignJet 2500 that I really would like to print to via
> IP but I was always getting PostScript errors and so had to settle for
> AppleTalk. Many of the files are quite large! Sometimes even over 100MB
> so IP would be much faster.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
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