Digital BW, The Print

I'll betray my ignorance here, but what the heck. I've been reading recent 
messages about print servers and am intrigued. I'm thinking about getting a 
7600 (or the next iteration) and have been wondering about how I'll set it up.

I'm on Win XP and have my 2200 direct connected to the PC via USB. It's 
printing color through the Epson driver and BW using QTR / QTRgui. The 
biggest problem I believe I'll have setting up the larger printer is space. 
I will have to place the printer outside my office in an adjacent work room 
and I may have to exceed acceptable USB cable length to get connected. It's 
also an intriguing idea to get the print-driving software running on 
another machine while I continue to work in Photoshop on subsequent images.

It seems that with QTRgui's watched folder capability I could send a file 
to a networked machine in the work room serving the printers and QTR would 
take over and print. Have I got that right? Is there some way to do the 
same when printing color through the Epson driver?

Michael

At 09:58 AM 12/20/2004, you wrote:
>One solution, if you have a spare computer (that PII-200 with 32MB of
>RAM and the 2.0GB hard disk, that's ready for the garbage, will do
>nicely here).  Can be reinstalled from bare metal, simply as a print
>server.  Linux can be a solution for a lot of problems here, in that it
>can run headless (no monitor, keyboard or mouse) just with the RIP
>engine and the printer attached, running networking and samba so that
>your Windows PC can use it.