[WinMac] re TCP printing from NT or Windows box?
Danny Thomas(D.Thomas[at]vthrc.uq.edu.au)
Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:28:15 +1000
Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> writes
>Can Win95 or NT be set up to do TCP/IP printing direct to the printer,
>a la' Laserwriter 8?
Dunno about Win95, but it's on the NT4 Workstation CD, something like
TCP/IP printing. You set this up as the port for a printer. Works OK the
few times I've tried it. Remember when you add an extra capability like
this to an existing NT setup, you're supposed to reapply any service packs
to get everything up-to-date. Sigh.
One caveat: if you want to use a PPD-based printer driver such as Adobe's
(or I believe that in Win98/NT5), lpr printing doesn't provide a
communication channel back from the printer. That means the driver can't
query the printer about how much RAM it has, what fonts, or importantly
what optional paper trays it has installed. You can either manually
configure these for the printer, or edit the PPD file to change the
defaults to match your printer. We do that for our printers even under
MacOS, because the PPDs from Lexmark & Tektronix do not have queries in the
PPD. Not to mention the Apple PPDs don't gracefully handle US Letter/A4
mismatches without some gentle prodding.
cheers,
Danny Thomas
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