mayer@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Warren Mayer) (08/02/88)
I am looking for a way, preferably through software, to permit user's on a local area network to access the PostScript language on a board located either in a server or on a non-PostScript printer. Let me be more specific ... I am setting up a Novell Netware network (presently with version 2.0a of the software but in the future with version 2.15) and would like to provide PostScript services to applications which create files for it as well as provide HP LaserJet II emulation for those files that do not. The ideal situation would be to have a printer which would print PostScript when the file requires it and print HP emulation when it does not. The switch from PostScript to non-PostScript should be transparent to the user of the network. The user should not need to select the PostScript printer driver to print PostScript. What I would like to do for printing services on this network is to have a high-speed PostScript printer and a few very good quality non-PostScript printers (either HP LaserJet II's or 24-pin dot-matrix printers) for draft prints. I want to avoid the user from always sending his printouts to the high-quality printers when a draft print will do. Also I want to avoid having the user always send his/her printout to the PS printer for the quality when a non-PS printing will suffice. If it is possible I would like to be able to put this printer selection "behind-the-scenes" on the server and not in the hands of the user. Is this too much to ask? Does anyone have a solution? A partial solution? Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Many thanks in advance! Warren Mayer C.C.I.S. - Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.