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  Installation Version 1.3
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  • Quick Start for Power User
  • Quiet Start for Power Beginner
  • Printing through TCP/IP and Internet with System 9 <NEW>
  • Warnings

  • Quick Start

  • Be sure you use the right drivers from Epson according to the compatibility table and the same drivers for all Macs on your Network.

  • Run "EpsonShare Installer" on the Macintosh you intend to be the server for the Epson printer. This Macintosh must be the Mac physically connected to your printer. The installer will place the folders and files needed onto your hard drive.

    Within the folder created on your startup disk: the "EpsonShareServer" application for the server and the "EpsonShareClient" application for clients.

    Copy an "EpsonShareClient" application to each client computer.

  • On your server (the computer where the printer is really connected), just run "EpsonShareServer". It will create a special folder and, in the "Settings" menu, allow you to control sharing of this indicated folder or the disk where this indicated folder resides.

    The sharing for this folder must be allowed with "read and write privileges" for the EpsonShareClients to be able to send to the folder. You also have to set client's privileges in the "Users & Groups" Control Panel.

    Verify you choose an Epson driver in the Apple's menu Chooser with the correct port where your Epson is plugged and with "background printing" ON.

  • On the client computer, open the chooser in the Apple's menu Chooser, and just click the icon of your Epson printer (printer/modem/usb or none port is unimportant).

    Mount the folder you shared on the Mac server (or the disk where this folder resides).

    Run EpsonShareClient and verify in the file menu "Current Print server" that EpsonShareClient recognizes the right shared folder on the server.

  • You are ready to print a document from any application on the client.

  • To automatically run your EpsonShareClients when you boot your Mac Clients, use the EpsonShareClient Preference menu.

  • To automatically run EpsonShareServer when you boot your Mac Server, use the EpsonShareServer Settings menu.

  • To prevent accidental Quit, Command-Q is adjustable on the fly in the EpsonShareClient Preference menu and EpsonShareServer Settings menu.


    Quiet Start

    The same as Quick Start but read your Apple documentation for learn how to share a folder and adjust its privileges before installing EpsonShare. Then, as I'm a NiceBoy, e-mail me: I take my tools and I'm coming! All over the world, 24/7, the plumber's dream!


    Printing through TCP/IP and Internet with System 9

  • Install EpsonShareServer on the Mac where the printer is really plugged exactly as above but just check "Enable File Sharing clients to connect over TCP/IP" in the File Sharing control panel of this Mac server.
  • Proceed the same as above to share the indicated folder.
  • Install a EpsonShareClient on any Mac on your local TCP/IP network or anywhere on a distant Mac on the internet network.
  • On this client computer, in the AppleShare part of Chooser, the only difference is you have to know the IP address of server and to mount the shared folder with the "Server IP Adress" button instead of select a server in the File server list.
  • The version of Epson drivers has to be the same on the server and on all distant Macs.
  • Yepeeee.


    Warnings

  • If you change the "Spool Folder5" name or location, restart EpsonShareServer (you can change its location in a Page Setup dialog).

  • Leave the "Epson Spool folder5" on your startup disk. As the EpsonShare shared folder is on the startup disk, if you change its location to another disk, printing will take a lot longer because Spool files are copied instead of simply moved.

  • On Macs clients without printer, in the Apple Menu "Chooser", just select your printer. If you can't choose a port (printer/modem/usb), if any port appears or if you can't check "Background printing", it doesn't matter: EpsonShare will make that for you.


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