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From: mikek@col.hp.com (Mike Karin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Alternatives for Printer Sharing?
Message-ID: <16110002@col.hp.com>
Date: 25 May 90 14:43:18 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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My wife's office has several PC's linked together with a program called
MANYLINK to do printer sharing.  Recently, they have been having problems
with MANYLINK when large print jobs are sent to the machine with the printer
on it while that machine is running a PARADOX application.  In the above
case, the machine serving the printer (and running PARADOX) just locks up.

I would like some suggestions for *inexpensive* alternate solutions to 
printer sharing.  The printer that they want to share is a Laserjet II.

I know that they could spend lots of money and put in a LAN system but I
would like to know if there are solutions available that *just* do printer
sharing and nothing else.

Mike Karin
Hewlett-Packard Co
Colorado Springs Division
mikek@hp-col.col.hp.com