Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> "Dean" == Carpenter, Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [big print jobs using all the bandwidth] Dean> The jobs themselves are just postscript - plain ascii. So I'm Dean> thinking I can set up a Linux box as a local printer at site 1, Dean> pipe the print job through gzip which should cut it

Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Carpenter, Dean wrote: > The jobs themselves are just postscript - plain ascii. So I'm thinking > I can set up a Linux box as a local printer at site 1, pipe the print > job through gzip which should cut it down to less than 1/10 the size, > ship across the T1 to another Linu

Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Carpenter, Dean
I have a situation here where we have users needing to print *huge* Powerpoint presentations to a high-color Xerox printer. These print jobs are at times over 3gig in size. The trouble is that the lusers are at one site, while the printer is at the other end of a dinky T1 ... When these things g