[WinMac] Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?

Michael Bartosh(bartosh[at]tamu.edu)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:45:20 -0500

> Dear Michael,
>
> Ahhh, you should have been to MacWorld! :)
>
> This very issue came up in our (Leonard, JoeMac, John & me)
>Professional
>conference. Essentially what you need to keep in mind is that LPR is
>essentially one way; and that it doesn't care for PostScript®
>bidirectionality too well. Printing to a PostScript printer over a network
>from a PC just doesn't work well at all... Stick to a parallel port
>connection.

I am aware that windows does not like postscript all to well. To say
the least. ;-)

>
> This is one area where AppleTalk still works quite well (whether
>implemented on a Mac or via an NT spooler: PAP (Printer Access Protocol),
>which is built in to AppleTalk, makes this all possible.

Yes- As a CE @ Apple recently pointed out to me- 'Aint NOTHIN' like
PAP for feature rich printing. PAP is the one thing I think will be
really missed when Apple completes the transition from AppleTalk to
complete IP.

>
> POINT WORTH NOTING: You have *two* connections when using a
>spooler: One
>from the workstation to the spooler, and one from the spooler to the
>printer... And you can run different stacks (IP to the spooler, AppleTalk
>to the printer) if need be!

Well- we found this
http://ich210.ich.kfa-juelich.de/wlprspl/

Which spools locally. It works ok except that to print you have to
drop the file onto the program's open window.

At least according to the people over in Journalism. I have not gone
by to install it/ fix things myself.

>
> The key connection is the one between the spooler and the
>printer: If it's
>a parallel port connection, no problem. If it's an AppleTalk connection, no
>problem, either. If it's an IP connection, then it's "Katy bar the door."
>Essentially, there are two machines that like to "talk" to a PostScript®
>printer: Macs, and NT servers running Services For Macintosh.

Haaaaaaaaa- and Solaris, and linux, and OSX Server, and any other OS
w/ a decent printing model. NeXT's work well.

>
> My suggestion is to use an old rePentium running NT/S 4, SP3
>or SP5, and
>SFM. Running the Spooler service uses very little in the way of CPU
>resources, but it IS heavy in disk action. [If you are using "Per Seat"
>licensing, then this is a non-issue.] You can find retired Prosignia 300's
>(P90) for ~$100 that will work just fine and feed a dozen printers in its'
>sleep.

There are only a couple of people over there that even use Windows-
much less know anything about it and certainly that know nothing
about nt. Every NT server I have ever seen needs at least a part time
administrator- and SFM seems to want a full time one. Noooooooo thank
you.

I am quite sure the Dave solution, below wil work. I was just looking
for something cheaper.

-mab

>
> Just my 2 cents this morning...
>
>At 10:07 PM 8/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>What's the best way to get our win 98 clients to print to this
>>printer? I have never worked in an environment where lpr was not a
>>network printer option (was in nt as far as I remember).
>>
>>So we were thinking putting Dave onto a Mac that uses the Appletalk
>>que, then using Dave to export it as an SMB printer. Is there a
>>cheaper option?
>>
>>-mab
>
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