Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] hiding laserwriters
From: Michael M Han (han@windy.ckm.ucsf.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 24 1998 - 16:29:38 EST
I take it to mean that you want to hide the device which advertises
itself on AppleTalk, but leave the spooler advertised by papd? We used
a little shareware utility called LaserWriter Lockout. It was buggy
and a nuisance, but did essentially do what it's supposed to. If you
don't want people in the Chooser at all, you could always set the
Chooser Invisible; the System would still see it, but no one could run
it. Or you could do strange things with ResEdit, which I wouldn't
recommend. Any of these would be preferable to trying to hide the
device itself, as I really can't think of any way to accomplish that
without hiding the printer from papd, too...
Previously...
>Is there a good way to hide a laserwriter from the
>Chooser? This would be in the interest of having
>all print jobs go to the unix-spooled device (which
>*would* still show up in the Chooser), instead
>of haphazardly from various locations.
>
>One way would probably be to change the printer type
>from laserwriter to something else. Has anyone
>done this with good results?
>
>The bad thing would be various Mac utilities not
>being able to see the printer anymore, such as
>Font Downloader or LaserWriter Utility, but it
>might still be worth the hassle.
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mike (han@library.ucsf.edu)
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