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From: yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LW spooling control
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Date: 1 Mar 89 16:14:19 GMT
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I'm trying to solve a problem our university open micro lab is having.

Our lab has a bunch of Macs and a bunch of LaserWriters. The 
LaserWriters have just had 'VendaCard' boxes attached to them, 
so that people must now insert a card (that they have 'charged up' 
with money) in order to print.

Right now we just have 1 Mac hooked up independently to each of the LWs. 
We'd like to just localtalk them all together, but that would be a disaster 
from the VendaCard point of view, as there is no control over when to insert 
the right person's VendaCard at the proper time; wrong people would 
inevitably get other people's print jobs charged to their VendaCard.

Question: Does anybody out there know of any spooling software/arrangement
that allows for better control over when the print job is started so 
that the right VendaCard could be inserted? 

Thanks in advance!
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