[TNG] Status (and merging)

[Simo Sorce]

Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Paul J Collins wrote:
> 
> > I use lpd printing for TNG.  NT and Win2K both come with an LPD
> > client.
> 
> true but a) the jobs are spooled on the NT box locally before reaching the
> server, b) you have to define the printers on each NT box, c) you can't
> centrally upgrade the printer drivers in less than 2 minutes.
> 
>         J.F.

Not really true.
It depends on the quality of the printing you need.
Using a postscript driver (from Adobe for example) and using print
filters on server side you may simply change filters behaviour on server
accordingly to the printers you have and you do not need to do anything
on the client side.
This obviously is not good if you need super quality pritings, but works
pretty well for normal text and low res images (BW and Color).

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