Re: [WinMac] Re: Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?
Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:35:33 -0500
WinMac Digest #390 - Saturday, August 14, 1999
Re: Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?
by "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Re: [WinMac] Re: Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?
by "Bruce Johnson" <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
Subject: Re: Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?
From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:14:05 -0500
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ARRRGGGHHHHH!
NO! I said to use a SINGLE NT spooler running AppleTalk and
Print Server
for Macintosh to print to ALL of the PostScript® network printers.
REMEMBER: The NT Print Server for Macintosh is for the windoze clients,
NOT the Macs!
Cheers!
Dan
At 12:42 PM 8/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
[snip]
>Then that's a heckuva cheaper solution than Dan's which means buying a
>printer for every PC.
>
>Come to think of it, we _did_ have endless problems when we first
>started messing with the PS printers; that's when we started using Adobe
>drivers, it was just a long time ago.
>
>--
>Bruce Johnson
>University of Arizona
>College of Pharmacy
>Information Technology Group
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Re: Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?
From: Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:35:33 -0500
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Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> ARRRGGGHHHHH!
>
> NO! I said to use a SINGLE NT spooler running AppleTalk and
> Print Server
> for Macintosh to print to ALL of the PostScript® network printers.
Sorry, I must have screwed up posts, I thought you said the best solution for
the PC was a parallel port connection...
So now, they have to set up an NT server (which even for academic types is
$400 a shot) SFM (and all the attendant headaches) _and_ dedicate a pc to it,
meaning, pretty much, they have to go out and spend $1500-$2000 on a PC for it
to run reliably...remember, the _original_ poster said they had no NT systems.
That's killing a mosquito with a 105mm howitzer, it'll work, maybe, but the
collateral damage is a real pain.
If they have an old pc laying around, heck, get RedHat, set up samba and
netatalk (which can each point to the same shared directories
and printqueues) and be done with it. That's free, or $50 or so if you buy
the disks, about the same amount of work, and more reliable for people wanting
to set something up once and be done with it.
The simplest solution would be to get an HP JetDirect EX box at $2-300 (if the
16/600 doesn't already have an ethernet port) and print to it using lpr. That
works, I use it all the time, _we_ use it all the time on a LAN of about 280
systems. We currently have about 20 printers hooked up through JetDirects. We
have occasional weirdness with them, but an the whole they've been pretty
bullet-proof. They support just about any protocol you want simultaneously.
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