Hi Tom!
One idea might to set the PC's plotters to be to FILE. Then either use a BAT
routine to copy direct to the share name of the plotter, or use a spooler
program, like printfile (via http://www.lerup.com/printfile/ ) and set it up as
a spooler with a link in the startup folder, to search for all files in C:\Spool
and send to net plotter direct. Since the plotter is connected to a print server
box, which ever print job arrives first, whether mac or pc, will be printed
first. If the printer server box is full, the spool command, whether via BAT or
printfile, will wait until the file can be spooled.
Another alternative, is to get a Mac spooler program and load on the Mac Server
to spool to plotter. Then set up net share folders, to be like Y: for plotter 1
and W: for plotter 2, and then the PC users plot to file, like Y:\myfile.plt and
then once in the folder, the Mac spooler sends off to the plotter 1.
Ciao!
~Terry
Tom Momeyer wrote:
> I see that Karl deleted the original post. I was away from the newsgroups
> for a couple of days and didn't see any of the responses. Please... If
> anyone has the entire set of messages, please email them to tem@momeyer.com.
>
> Not sure what inflamed the moderators... so don't get going again! My goal
> is to bring two pc's running autocad up and running onto a cat 5 network
> with a 100 speed switch with a handful of macs and an apple server running
> OS X.
>
> I spoke to their mac network consultant yesterday, and he noted that the two
> HP plotters are connected to the network via an external print server. I
> assume that I can't plot with the pc's queing through the apple server, so
> they'll have to be configured to go direct to the plotters. Are we going to
> see "collisions" or issues between macs and pcs (or between pcs and pcs)
> plotting directly to the HP 450C and HP 600's?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas E. Momeyer, AIA, CCS
