Re: Printing question

[sydnic@xxxxxxxxxx]

With a little programming something can be achieved. This is one possible
solution.

Send all prints to an output queue that has no attached printer. This output
queue has a data queue attached.
A server program waits on records arriving in this data queue (ie. a spoolfile
has arrived or has been released)
This server program works with a list of printing output queues. It uses the
spool APIs to determine if there is a free printer and moves the spool file to
this printer.

There are many variations/alternatives to this type of processing that can
produce a very flexible printing environment.

Syd Nicholson
Castlehill Computer Services Ltd.



Quoting Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@comporium.com>:

> A colleague of mine has asked me if the following is possible. Off the
> top
> of my head, I don't see this working, but I may be missing something:
> Can we
> have one output queue pointing to some type of "printer pool" (say two
> different printers) and if one of the printers is writing be able to
> send
> the output to another printer? I am told that this can be done on
> Window$
> servers, and I would assume something to this effect _could_ be
> accomplished. Is this something InfoPrint Server could handle?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Chris Whisonant
>
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