Fund@RELAY.PROTEON.COM (01/11/90)
>We are in the process of acquiring software that will allow us to >print on laser printers attached to user's stations WITHOUT extracting >too much of a CPU penalty on the user sitting at that station. >I understand that some products work better than others: We have tried >HOTSERVER (Currently called PrintQAssist, i believe) and it works fine >as long as: 1)- you dont run an interrupt driven communication program >(like kermit) AND 2)- you don't have a high power machine like a PS/2. >What happens in the above two cases is you either lose characters from >your KERMIT session, OR your PS/2 pauses too long while servicing the >Queue. >SO: has anyone in Netland gone through this excercise before? Our current >solution is to dedicate our oldest 2 floppy original PC's to work as >dedicated print servers' (which is fine....) except we ran out of PC's.... >Thanx in advance for any suggestions... >George Saba We use Printer Assist from Fresh Technology. I believe that is the latest and greatest interation of HOTSERVER. Anyway, it works just fine for us. I have never gotten any reports of losing any characters. We do not use KERMIT though. We go with PROCOMM. I am very intrigued and will be buying a number of Microtest's LANPORTS for future network installations. This is basiclly a PC with an Ethernet port and either a single LPT1:, COM1:, or duall COM1: and COM2: ports without a keyboard or monitor... It is the size of a deck of cards. It is also very secure. Prices range from $495 - $695 list. AUI and BNC connections are supported. The current release requires that you also buy LAN Systems LANSpool for your server. A new release, expected out within a month or so, will require nothing extra, and will work will all NW286 and 386 print queues. Fresh Technology 602-497-4200 Microtest 800-526-LANS, 602-971-6464