Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer.

I second the motion. I recently installed Print Wizard on a client's 
machine and was impressed at how easy it was to use.

Robert Norman

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On 1/28/2014 2:37 PM, Bill Haskett wrote:
> You know, I was able to integrate all printers into U2 by writing a 
> few simple programs and using Print Wizard to convert our PCL5 output 
> into a ".pdf" file.  This way, I never work with printers at the UD 
> level any more.  And PW is an awesome product with awesome support.
>
> Bill
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> *Date:* 1/28/2014 12:54 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [U2] How do you verify windows printer is good before 
> fatal error by PRINTing to a bogus printer.
>> On 28/01/14 20:31, Jeff Schasny wrote:
>>> I've been using Universe since it was in beta and I had no idea you
>>> could use a URI in SETPTR.
>>>
>>> Its a good day, I've learned something new. Thanks!
>> Just watch out. In today's modern world of GDI printers, sending a raw
>> text dump from UV is often not a good idea.
>>
>> In the old days of dot-matrix, or even PCL that just expected a text
>> stream, it worked fine. It's nowhere near that simple any more :-(
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wol
>>> Wols Lists wrote:
>>>> So if I am working on \\ASHDOWN (the name of my computer) I can use
>>>> SETPTR to point at \\TIGGER\HP - a printer logically connected to a
>>>> different computer that I've never told UV anything about.
>>>>
>>>> Setptr is quite happy to be given a windows remote computer reference
>>>> and it works fine. That was how all our printers worked - they usually
>>>> had network cards in them, so when a new printer turned up, I would
>>>> assign it a name in DNS, and for anybody who was supposed to use it I
>>>> would just edit their login script to add eg
>>>>
>>>> SETPTR ...,AT \\ACCOUNTS-HP\RAW
>>>>
>>>> And it just worked. No UV printer setting up whatsoever. Okay, my 
>>>> setup
>>>> was a little bit cleverer than that, but everything, and I mean
>>>> EVERYTHING, was done in my programs. Nothing at the UV level 
>>>> whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Wol
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