Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!sutter From: sutter@osu-eddie.UUCP Newsgroups: net.periphs Subject: X2700 under VMS v4.1 Message-ID: <599@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 15:54:04 EDT Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.599 Posted: Wed Sep 11 15:54:04 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 09:34:12 EDT Sender: sutter@osu-eddie.UUCP Organization: OSU Instruction & Research Computer Center Lines: 35 From: sutter (Bob Sutterfield) A user in a department served by our VAX-11/750 under VMS v4.1 is about to purchase a Xerox printer. He will eventually be getting the new 4045, but until that arrives, he will be using a 2700. It will be on a DMA serial port (on a Xyplex cluster, if you must know), as a spooled output device at 19200 baud. He will eventually want to have some VAX-resident fonts for downloading for special occasions, besides a few cartridge-resident for speed and flexibility. The first major use will be as a printer to be shared among many users on DEC Rainbows and IBM PC's that all use locally-attached printers, and want to be able to share one nice big print engine. Eventually, we will probably install TeX, move the 2700, and install it on a parallel (DMF-32) interface as the VAX system printer. What must I do about the print symbiont to get it to talk nicely to this? If users are using local word-processing packages on their PC's, and I can get their print file onto the VAX and into the queue, how should I coerce the symbiont to ship out exactly the binary file that's referred to in the queue? Is there a special symbiont that I need that knows how to download the appropriate fonts for a particular print job or page? How about changing from portrait to landscape for 132-wide DP-style jobs? Answers to the above, and any other words of wisdom or warning would be greatly appreciated. -- Human: Bob Sutterfield Facilities Management Division The Ohio State University Instruction & Research Computer Center Workplace: Ohio Cooperative Extension Service, Computer Management Group OCES VAX System Manager/Programmer (VMS) Mail: ...cbosgd!osu-eddie!sutter.UUCP or: sutter@ohio-state.CSNET MaBell: (614) 422 - 9034