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Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:26:37 PST7
From:	"Info2SYNass.NET" <Info@SYNass.NET >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: electronic printer switches

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Hi Peter
a more comfortable but also more expensive solution could be with
an ethernet print server or one router with a printserver also
i.e. SMC 700x BR.
Each printer having an unique TCPip ID can be addressed directly
!?

I am sure you know this too ;-)

Regards, svobi

pskye@peterskye.com on 30.06.2002 16.29.48
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Re: electronic printer switches

Info2SYNass.NET wrote:

Hi Svobi,
> should be svob"e" ;-)
Apologies. :)

> >> "AUTOMATIC" switching !
> ...
> but I believe you can also use
> up to 4 printers with one PC !?

If the printers are the same and the paper trays have the same
paper
then automatic switching could be used (a "printer pool").

If the printers or paper aren't the same, automatic switching
would be
difficult. As far as I know the external automatic switch has no
way to
tell the application which printer will be used, so they can't
cooperate
and choose an acceptable printer-paper combination (Steven Levine
has
mentioned MarkVision and Jet Direct but I don't know what these
products
are capable of). And once the application chooses a printer with
its
associated driver, the output can't then be routed to a printer
with an
incompatible control language; even printers as similar as my
LaserJet
II's and IID's can't exchange print jobs.

I use multiple printer objects, one for each "type" of print job,
and
spool all my printouts. The spoolers are always kept on
"processing
held" status and I release the spoolers one at a time for
printing.
Each printer/spooler object is shadowed to my Warp Center so
doing this
is easy.
- Peter

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