Has anybody worked out how to do distributed printing using OIPI. I can get my printing to work great locally, however, using the web we will have people in California and Arizona printing.

S

Can you give me a better idea of how the distributed printing works in general? That is, are you able to print to other locations via defined resources that appear as remote printers?

The bottom line is that if printing to these locations is handled no differently than selecting a different printer (e.g. through the Printers folder or via a Print Setup dialog) then I don't see why you can't use the OIPI to print to these devices.

If you need to automate this from within OI then there are various options for that as well. But let's see if I understand your primary question first.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions

On the top of my browser, I have a button that looks like a little printer. When I move my mouse pointer over it and press the mouse button, the contents of the browser show up on a piece of paper in the printer's output tray.

garygnu@compuserve.com

I could choose the remote printers via the print setup dialog box…if the users could all come to my server to make their selections. The problem is that the dialog shows up on the server and not the workstations. Because these printers are on someone else?s network, I will not have access to them to share as resources. I believe that I will work with the browsers print function although I will lose the formatting capabilities that are available to me in OIPI.

I suppose the better question is, how are the remote workstations communicating with the server? You mention the browser, but is this a web app, or a citrix-web based solution or something different.

Windows 2000 supposedly has some internet print capabilities. Most remote control programs have remote and local printing options as well, though some work better than others.

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By the way, OIPI does not yet work on Win2000. It GPFs at different times, depending on the release. I've been working with Tony Splaver for the past 2 months trying to find out what the problems are.

I'm sure there will be a solution soon, but I haven't heard the good news yet.

Cheers

Dave

This is a web app. Win 2k is not an option that is available to me.

Hey,

Like the Gnu said, click that little print button in your browser and bingo!

Well, the group is perplexed. If the application is running in a browser, then it means HTML/JavaScript/Java correct?

If so, OpenInsight is not really running on the local machine so therefore cannot print back to the local machine. Printing would be a function of the browser.

If this is an internal type web app, meaning remote offices, then if you do wish to do this type of printing (send files from your office to the remote printers) then this would be possible, since the locations will be known. However, if this is an app meant for the general public, the print button on the browser is the only practical answer.

It could be possible to have a print button on the window that retreives a java/javascript page which will then force the output to the local printer. However, the end result of this sort of app would most likely be the same as the output the user would receive by simply printing the page.

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