Subject: Re: capturing printers?
From: Thierry BESANCON (besancon@excalibur.ens.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 09 1995 - 11:26:02 EST
>> I installed netatalk a few weeks ago, have many /etc/printcap entries
>> printing nicely to apple print spoolers, unix directories mountable as
>> appleshare volumes, and the like. What I really want to do, however,
>> and can't figure out, is to capture the LaserWriters so I can do away
>> with the apple print spoolers altogther.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
If you want to print from UNIX to AppleTalk printers, you need a unix spool
area for the unix daemon to send the spooled file to netatalk pap daemon.
If you have some printers non reachable from Macintoshes (for example
a SUN sparc-printer), you can make the macintoshes print to pseudo
devices that in fact create files in a unix spool area. Your spooled file
is then submitted using the unix way to the physical device.
I don't understand "to capture the LaserWriters so I can do away with the
apple print spoolers".
Thierry
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