AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (03/18/89)
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 22:04:55 -0500 (EST) >From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu> >Appleserve, also known as Lasershare, is a print server running off >of a dedicated Mac. A Mac "captures" a Laserwriter on the Appletalk >network and proceeds to spool a queue to the device. I have tried to >use the //GS's Imagewriter Emulator on it, but it won't work. [...] Oh, _that_. I didn't recognize the name, but I've used it. I guess I never tried printing to the LaserWriter as an emulated ImageWriter through Appleserve. In what way did it fail to work for you? >I kind of wish the Chooser on the GS was a CDA, as the Mac's Chooser >is a DA that comes standard on systems. This allows one to set the >printer to be used once for an entire session and does not require >one to quit an application and run a routine independently as the >GS's Chooser requires. Further, these settings stay in place if you >change applications. I do not know if this is true in 16-bit >applications on the GS. One may need to reChoose the printer each >time. The Mac's chooser is "Global," not program specific. You do not need to re-choose the printer in applications that use the Print Manager. The Print Manager records your choice in a file in the *:system:drivers folder. A CDA version of a Chooser would be useful, but in a limited way--only for choosing network printers, I think. You would still have to tell your 8-bit application what _slot_ to print to. Again, "Choose Printer" is available in desktop-based applications, without having to quit the application. It's only the text-based ProDOS 8 chooser that works on the IIe (with a workstation card) as well as the IIgs that requires you to run it separately. >jeremy mereness >jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (arpa) >r746jm7e@cmccvb (bitnet) --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons
wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (03/18/89)
From article <8903171133.aa08047@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, by AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons"):
>>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 22:04:55 -0500 (EST)
>>From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>
>>Appleserve, also known as Lasershare, is a print server running off
>>of a dedicated Mac. A Mac "captures" a Laserwriter on the Appletalk
>>network and proceeds to spool a queue to the device. I have tried to
>>use the //GS's Imagewriter Emulator on it, but it won't work. [...]
>
> Oh, _that_. I didn't recognize the name, but I've used it. I guess
> I never tried printing to the LaserWriter as an emulated ImageWriter
> through Appleserve. In what way did it fail to work for you?
I've only heard it called LaserShare. Running Lasershare 1.0 I just
successfully printed to a Macintosh spooler. There was no problem uploading
the emulator (with chooserII), however, you might have to tell your text
application (APW, etc) that you need linefeeds after carriage returns.
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