Subject: Re: Unfamiliar with netatalk printing...can it do this?
From: Chad S. Lauritsen (csl@plconline.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 17:12:05 EDT
Kevin White wrote:
>
> > >If the Mac clients have the HP printing software, will this work?
> >
> > I don't know any Mac driver with PAP support which generates PCL (only local). Which doesn't mean that it's not existing, tough.
>
> Which means my problem is back to the printer: there's no way to print
> to a non-local non-PS printer on a Mac, from what you know, and unless
> HP has some fantastic new drivers for this 1220C, it won't
> work...correct?
>
> Can I advertise a printer as a PS printer from papd and filter it to
> PCL with Ghostscript?
yes, you should be able to send postscript from the mac to the unix
machine via PAP. then the unix machine could convert your postscript to
PCL, and forward it on to the printer using lpr. in fact, i would
recommend using the spooling capabilities of the unix machine as opposed
to just having many clients print directly to the print server if it
were possible. it gives administrative control over the print queue, and
provides a central place for spooling.
you should make sure that you have a ghostscript filter/module that will
work with the printer that you have, though. however, if your mac pcl
drivers include support for an appletalk-connected printer, it seems
that you should be able to generate the desired pcl code on the mac, and
forward it to the unix machine via appletalk's pap, and then lpr could
pass that PCL to the printer without needing a filter. depends on the
mac driver, i think. correct me if I'm wrong, anybody.
>
> Kevin
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