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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:37:32 -0500 Subject: RE: PPR: GUI? At 08:21 AM 01/25/2000 -0600, jkrainak wrote: > >>Also, this is a TCP/IP network, all Tektronix printers are running LPR, >Do you mean that the Macs will be printing over AppleTalk to the server and >then the server will dispatch the jobs by LPR? That will probably work, >but LPR is less than ideal, basically because is wasn't designed for server >to printer communication. It would be better to use the HP JetDirect style >protocol done by the "tcpip" interface program or to use AppleTalk. >---- I just mean that the printers themselves have lpd daemons built-in to >accept jobs from the PPR spooler over tcpip. That should work, but if the Tek printers support another protocol that PPR supports, I would use it. Does anyone out there know if they do? LPR is ok, but it doesn't support bi-directional communication with the printer and the file size must be know before the transmission is started, which forces PPR to use a temporary file. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center PostMaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106