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From: haines@usage.csd.unsw.oz (Dr Ron Haines)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: AppleShare Printer Spooling
Keywords: Printer Spooling
Message-ID: <504@usage.csd.unsw.oz>
Date: 26 Nov 89 04:28:38 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Dept, UNSW, Australia
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Some questions on the AppleShare Print Spooler:
1. If you have configured the spooler to spool to a particular printer,
can users then choose to bypass the spooler ? (say they were spooling
to their local hard disk using  the background printing option)
2. If the answer to 1 is 'yes', then does a user who chooses to bypass
the spooler get a genuine direct connection to the printer or does the
spooler still act as an intermediary between the user's mac and the
printer?
3. Can the server and the printer it's spooling to be in different
zones?
4. Is there any way for users to inspect (but not alter) the printer
queues?
5. How much memory does the spooler require in the server, say to
spool to 3 LaserWriters?

Thanks to those who have time to respond,
Ron Haines
haines@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au