RE: Using Windows LPD software to print from an iSeries

If I didn't have green-screen apps that already made printing simple (press one function key and the class schedule prints) that all of our users are use to and expect I would go the pdf route. If I try and do that when I convert existing functions to web browser and change the single function key to a button, then a file open, then find and use the print button in Acrobat I will get tarred and feathered.

... plus I already have everything in place to produce a spool file into an outq associated with the current user and I was hoping to reuse that logic. For 90% of my users they will be on college owned systems where we control the installed software and adding lpr/lpd is going to be much less of an issue that keeping client access updated. The other 10% are home users who are usually power users and know what they are doing or they are also using college owned laptops where we control the image.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Using Windows LPD software to print from an iSeries

We are moving to an all browser world and the need for Client Access

to be

installed on the client machine is going away. That and the need to

support

printing to non-college owned computers (e.g. Employee and student home

computers) is pushing us towards LPR/LPD printing.

In an "all browser" world, wouldn't the right way to do printing be
generation of a PDF server-side and just let the client print it
however/wherever they want? If you go the LPR/LPD approach you'll be
supporting code on the client-side (yuck!) and you'll have firewall
issues to content with, be there physical, or software-based.

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
Tech Software
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WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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