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Subject: LaserShare 2.0
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Date: 10 Feb 89 19:13:34 GMT
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>	Anyone out there have ANY info on LaserShare (I think 2.0)
>	from Apple??
>
>	Anything at all would be appreciated - good - bad - ugly...
>
>	We want to use it in two labs here at school, one has 45 macs 
>	and the other has 25.  Both have 2 LaserWriter II NT's.


Here at NMSU Computer Center we have a Student Mac Lab of about 25 Macs.  We
have AppleShare running on two servers behind the desk, one of which is also
running LaserShare.  LaserShare seems to run fine, and can queue up a large
number of jobs (especially with slow printers like the LaserWriter Plus). 
The spooler does a good job so far.  The only problems we've seen so far is
that it consistently flushes PICT jobs (MacDraw, CricketDraw,...) with rotated
text.  (Has to do with postscript record size)  To deal with this, you can
specify Bypass mode (which introduces "cutting" in line problems...).

BTW, LaserShare will also flush any jobs with a Laserwriter driver older than 
it is using.

General Disclaimer: "Im just a student/programmer/engineer trying to
                     learn a thing or two..."

Patrick Gaughan		Programmer of Gor
pgaughan@nmsu		New Mexico State University