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- From: ckw@Cookie.secapl.com (Kirk Woerner)
- Subject: Re: High volume printing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.170128.25108@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:01:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.060351.13234@cmutual.com.au>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- In article <1992Aug17.060351.13234@cmutual.com.au> icj@cmutual.com.au (Ian Johnston) writes:
- [...]
-
- > 1) Has anyone connected a IBM bus/tag protocol printer (preferably
- > Xerox) to a UNIX host or TCP/IP terminal server? If so please
- > send me details.
- >
- We have used a product from Dataware Development in San Diego
- tel - (619) 453-7660
-
- They make a product which turns a a PC into a bus and tag "print server".
- You buy a bus/tag card (from them) that gets put into the PC and you can
- print regular files to the bus/tag printer from the PC.
-
- The great thing about this is that they have another product (called
- Autoprint) which will print anything found in a specific directory and then
- delete it. This means you can set up a quasi spooling capability. On top
- of that, it does not interfere with network operations on the PC so you can
- put an ethernet card in the PC WITH the bus/tag card and automatically mount
- a directory using NFS on a remote host. If you set Autoprint to use this
- directory as its "spooling" directory, you only have to copy the file into
- the directory on the remote and it will be printed and deleted (or copied
- elsewhere for backup).
-
- I don't know the volume of printing you're talking about but we use it
- this way and while our company is small we do a lot of printing (two
- 4075's which will prob be upgraded to a 4090)
-
- We haven't tried this with postscript files but I'm 99% sure it would
- pose no problems since postscript is just ascii text. If you need to pass
- through some sort of graphics file from a postscript interpreter (since
- Xerox doesn't seem to support postscript at the printer level very much), I
- don't know, but again, I bet it works.
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