Subject: Re: postscript fonts?
From: BWS - Offwhite (brennan@offwhite.net)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 22:55:35 EDT
Problem solved.
I made changes to the printer config files and once it was all back up the
printer no longer showed up on the network. I do not know what happened,
but it basically stopped me from allowing it to act as a print spooler.
So I finally learned about LPR on the mac. Before I thought I had to use
the Chooser to set up the printer, but found that the Destop Printer
Utility was able to set an IP for the printer and now I can print directly
to the printer.
I am happy this works as I am going from a private network to a printer
which is just outside the gateway. With the printer outside the network I
could not use the Choose, but now it works.
I still use Netatalk as a fileserver, but I am glad I do not have to
manage the Unix printer services anymore. Perhaps this is an area where
Netatalk will improve.
Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, TimY wrote:
> Basically what netatalk does is free up your printer by accepting the
> printed file directly and storing it until the printer can get to it.
> So lets say you have five people printing to a postscript device.
> Only one of the can have access to the printer at any one time. All
> the other machines that are printing will say printer busy and it
> ties up the machines until the printer is free again. A spooler can
> receive the files for the printer and free up machines that are
> waiting to print. I hope this is the answer you were looking for.
> The file paecount.ps is a file I am not familliar with. It may be a
> raw postscript file the sends a command to the printer to tell it to
> print a report of how many pages it has printed. Or how many pages
> netatalk creates it so you know how many pages you have spooled. I
> have no Idea.
>
> Later,
> Tim Yardley
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> >What if I copy the pagecount.ps file which came with netatalk to the
> >spooling directory?
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> >Does it just look for new files and print them? I am unfamiliar with what
> >it does exactly.
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> >Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
> >projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
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> >On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, TimY wrote:
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