RE: [WinMac] Mac printing in a PC world

McKnight, David(DMcKnight[at]MIS.Fleetwood.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:51:45 -0700

VICTOR:

An inexpensive and elegant solution is to install Adobe Acrobat on your Mac
(which you may already have, the latest version is 3.0), and convert your
reports to PDF files. You can then either output to an inexpensive inkjet
like an Epson hooked directly to your Mac in full PostScript beauty (and
color), or if your networked printers are capable of outputting graphics
(though not PostScript files), you can print through them. Though frankly
the cost of a high quality inkjet is incredibly cheap these days.

The other advantage is you have PDF files that you can share with your
Wintel-using associates.

DAVID

> ----------
> From: Victor Forberger
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> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 11:19 AM
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> Subject: [WinMac] Mac printing in a PC world
>
> A request for some advice.
>
> I'm an adjunct in the Sociology department where there are two printers,
> both
> connected to a campus ethernet network (run with Banyan Vines) that I have
> access to through the chooser. Unfortunately, the printer that I am
> supposed
> to use does not understand postscript (it's an HP 5N), and I'm not in the
> position to talk to them about upgrading it to postscript. They let me
> use
> the other printer (HP 4si), but I'm limited to printing material that
> directly
> relates to the class (e.g. grade sheets or assignments students email to
> me).
>
> I would like to print stuff that I need for my research. Right now, I
> link to
> another printer in another building, send my printouts there, and hope
> they
> are still there when I pick them up later in the day.
>
> PowerPrint is apparently out as a solution. It requires a serial
> connection
> to operate, and the Pro version is overkill for my needs (I'm not creating
> the
> network nor do I have the big bucks on an adjunct salary). I have a copy
> of
> Ghostscript so I can generate the raw HPL print codes, I just don't know
> how
> to send it to the printer over the network.
>
> Ideally, I would like a chooser driver to send HPL code instead of
> postscript
> to the printer. Is there one available (an HP deskjet driver I found
> requires
> a serial connection so it does not work)? Or, is there a way to send my
> Ghostscript output over the network to the printer? Of course, with the
> Ghostscript solution I would need to automate printing (probably with
> applescript). It would be awkward, but at least I could print my
> research.
>
> While I'm not sure it makes a difference, all the department's printers
> are
> captured and tied and selected and whatever by the Vines network and
> attached
> spoolers. In other words, I cannot gain control of them with either
> Apple's
> printing utility or HP's printing utility because of the spoolers.
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Victor Forberger
> Northeastern University
>
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