Digital BW, The Print

Thankd for the good info...!  But before I go through the hassle of 
setting up a print server, it would be great to get Steve Billard's 
feedback on doing this...? 

Also, real basic ?, how do I check the firewall setting is off in 
W2K...?  Or is there one...? 

Finally, can any windows developers out their think of any other   
settings that would stop QTR GUI from sending data to port for 
printing...? 

Thanks in advance! 
Steve B 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Poster 
<mposter@w...> wrote:
> 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.