Testing plotters for proper charging
Wed, 09/02/2009 - 12:32 — jaklein.ncsu.eduTo confirm the proper operation of a plotter, both for function and accounting, we've created a test document that measures 12" x 1" Download the .pdf to test printing
In fhe following recepies, replace plotter with the name of the specific plotter you're attempting to test.
On a linux/unix computer from the command prompt
LPRng Lore
Wed, 03/11/2009 - 14:01 — jaklein.ncsu.eduAll of the printer handling, including format conversions, are handled by the ifhp filter. THIS FILTER IS NOT DOCUMENTED in the LPRng package!
Instead, see
http://www-it.desy.de/systems/services/printing/howto/IFHP-HOWTO.html
Samba printing for Windows workstations
Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:16 — jaklein.ncsu.eduTraditionally, Windows clients were hosted from seperate print servers running Novell's NDPS and the third party Pcounter software. This required that the logs and quotas be syncronized. Starting in 2009, we moved to use Samba to convert the native Microsoft SMB/RPC print requests into a form that WolfPrint can use.

