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[lshaw]

Setting up remote offices in our home and also in our vacation home in Colorado. We need to purchase a laser printer for basic office applications-nothing elaborate. After speaking with various people with our software vendor, I'm unsure as to exactly what specs are needed for compatability with TCPpro. Can you clear this up?

[Bob]

It depends on the method of printing you are using.

If you are using passthrough printing (printing through the emulation via escape sequences which must be supported by your app) you can use almost any printer, since the ICE.TCP Pro raster driver does line printer emulation.

If you are using spooled printing via the LPR/LPD services or with ICELP you will need a printer that can print characters natively. This generally means a printer that can do PCL.
Note that the more recent CHEAP printers cannot print characters natively, they only print graphics and depend on windows to turn the characters into a bitmap.

[yjaremko]

Is there any requirements for passthought

today one of my printers stoped printing anything
another computer only prints BLANK pages

[Bob]

Is there any requirements for passthrough

today one of my printers stoped printing anything
another computer only prints BLANK pages

Passthrough expects the output from the Unix app to be formatted properly for the destination printer, the windows print spooler should just "pass through" the print stream without modifying it. It's supposed to act as if the printer is directly connected to the unix machine.