[WinMac] RE: Win NT LPR Printer Server?

Harris, Matt(HARRISMA[at]Mattel.com)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:15:49 -0500

One thing which I know is a problem with NT as a Mac print server is
binary EPS. Even if you print a file with an embedded EPS which was
saved with binary encoding, it will not print through an NT queue
with the Adobe Postscript Driver version 4 running on your server.
The symptoms are essentially as you describe - I just fails to print.
No postscript error, and usually no server crash either. On occasion
certain printers will interpret the binary EPS as text and spew page
after page of gibberish.

I want to say we fully tested this with the Adobe Postscript Driver
version 5, but now I can't remember how thorough we were with that,
because we had other problems with that driver early on.

I am now using ASIP 6.2 for an LPR Print server successfully, from
both Mac and Windows clients. It is not quite as nice as the NT
server for Windows clients because the drivers cannot be
automatically sent from the server to the client as NT Server can do,
but it does work reliably.

As far as getting rid of Appletalk - an intermediate step if you are
on a large network, is to cut your zones off from each other at the
router. That should limit the chatter that Appletalk has been
criticized for and still leave you the ability to use Appletalk
printers on your subnet for the next couple years while Apple
finishes their IP networking improvements they are rumored to be
working on.

(About a month ago it was reported on one of the rumor sites that the
Cupertino campus is going IP only to force Apple engineers to live
with the product they built and gain ideas for improvement)

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