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  3. July 2006

Batch print to AFP printer

We would like to process overlays to an AFP printer with a batch process, hopefully with no need for a person to click the image file and send it to the AFP printer.
What we are imagining is to take an old PC, install an AFP printer, network it to our LAN, and set it in the closet with the door closed and the lights off. We'd like to write a script that accepts a file name and prints a prn file to a predesignated spot. 

The two issues that are stoppers for us are:
1) the AFP printer apparently can not be effectively networked, hence the need for a dedicated PC. 2) we can not find a way to print the file from a command line. Every choice we see requires that a dialog box be presented and a save-as name/destination be chosen by a person at the keyboard. 

Anyone have any ideas how we could do either of these two items?

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