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Re: Network printing from PC's???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tearle)
Wed Oct 19 01:54:20 1994
From: Mark Tearle <mtearle@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
To: dane@rescomp.stanford.edu (Dane Spearing)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 13:35:25 +0800 (WST)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199410182304.QAA01605@rescomp.stanford.edu> from "Dane Spearing" at Oct 18, 94 04:04:40 pm
> We're having a little printing problem here at Stanford:
>
> Stanford is (was) predominantly a Macintosh-based campus, and
> most of our network services are based around that platform,
> including printing. A number of students are now coming in with
> their own PC machines and want to be able to print to our public
> printers. Unfortunately, the majority of our public printer are
> AppleTalk-based. Is there any way for a PC (running, say, Windows)
> to print to an AppleTalk printer over the network?
> (Most of the network at Stanford is ethernet -- a mix of 10baseT
> and ThinNet. So hooking up to the media isn't a problem. How
> do we get the PC's to see/print to the AppleTalk printers.)
>
> The more general question is:
>
> How do PC's in general print to network printers? (i.e. - printers
> that are not directly attached to the computer). We have little
> experience with PC printing.
>
From memory and previous posts from Dane I think you are running CAP at
your site one solution is to set up papif (papif for those who don't
know allows Unix machines running CAP to print to Appletalk Printers)
under one of your Unix box's print queues and then use one of the PC lpr
clients to do the job.
Hope this helps.
Yours
Mark
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