[WinMac] Re: TCP/IP printing

Jeff Miller(miller[at]techresource.com)
Thu, 30 Jul 1998 21:12:00 -0400

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  Printing TCP/IP from a Mac is simple, and often the best solution if your
network is large, you have a segmented ATM backbone, or just many IP
segments with flaky hubs and switches. Printing IP can also please those
grumpy IS managers who insist "AppleTalk is Chatty, IP is much better".
Please them (and prove them wrong @ the same time) and use TCP/IP from your
Mac. 2 simple ways.
  First - install LaserWriter 8.5.1 (available from Apple Web site), run the
Desktop Printer Utility, choose the LaserWriter 8 printer driver (must be
8.5.1) and create Printer LPR. The next screen choose your PPD and then
enter the IP address of the printer you wish to print to. Click on the
verify button, if your printer can be seen it will tell you. Then go to
file and save the desktop printer to your desktop with any name you wish.
You must save or the printer will not be available. This printer will not
appear under chooser but is available under the print menu in applications
or drag to it on your desktop. It works great.
  The 2nd option is to purchase "Dave" by Thursby corporation and you can
connect to an Mac from NT or NT from a Mac via chooser, (And print too).
The only software that needs to be installed is on the Mac. A great option
as well.

Thanks,
Jeff Miller
General Manager,
Technical Resource Systems, Inc.
513-779-0200

>From: kjkhoo@pop.jaring.my
>Been following the posts on TCP/IP printing from NT. How does
>one set this up on a Mac?
The bundled AppleShare Print Server does this - The AppleShare IP File
Server now lets an Appleshare File Server advertise its volumes at a TCP/IP
address so they are reachable from an AppleTalk-enabled client looking for
IP addresses. The Appleshare Print Server can attach a Queue to any printer
it can see, which includes printers that only appear at IP addresses.

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