[SunHELP] landscape with lpr

[Jim Pennino]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:49:46AM -0400, Markham, Richard wrote:
> My apologies, bad wording.  100 printers attached to jetadmin boxes, which 
> could lead to 100 local spoolers on a Oracle database tier.  If I resolve
> the landscape issue, then I dont have to create local spoolers because these
> printers have already been mapped once on our main print server.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Pennino [mailto:jimp at specsol.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:42 AM
> To: The SunHELP List
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] landscape with lpr
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:27:59AM -0400, Markham, Richard wrote:
> > Understood.  What is your opinion on the load difference, compared
> > to having 100 local print queues or having enscript manulipulating
> > landscape jobs, but all going to a remote server.
> >  
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understand the question.
> 
> You mean 100 different print queues each with some special characteristic
> or 100 queues pointing to 100 physical printers? 
> 
> A short description of the environment would be helpfull.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Pennino

My gut response is to use enscript to handle the formatting problem
to separate it from the distribution problem and make ongoing
maintenance easier.

As printers wear out and get replaced with new models, the formatting
issue should be transparent.

It also means that should next month someone decide they want to print
in 2 column landscape with 6 point font, the problem is already solved.

-- 
Jim Pennino