Digital BW, The Print

If you just set up a print server you will necessarily have to set up a full
blown network. That alone may solve your problem, even without connecting
your printer to the print server. All the problems with printing that have
been resolved were either improperly set up networking or improperly shared
printers.

As to the firewall, go to the control panel. There you will find an icon for
the Windows Firewall. (At least if you are running XP SP2.)

Finally, just a minor point. QTRgui is just the front end to Roy's print
driver software--QuadToneRIP. It is doing all the real work here.

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: steveabrink [mailto:steveabrink@...] 
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:53 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Print Server - Was: QTR - GUI Problems...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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