Conference 7.286::postscript_printing

7118.0. "Future for printing migration" by NECSC::HARVEY (Printserver Support- America's Zone) Mon Mar 10 1997 13:29

    	Not intended to force customers to stop using VMS products that we
    Digital still make money on but.....
    
    What products or any known utilities that customers can use to print
    like DCPS does with layup, setup modules, etc on Digital UNIX or WNT?
    We are fielding more and more questions related to customers migrating
    from VMS to UNIX and NT. The print features that customers relied on in
    the VMS world are plain not here for these platforms.
    
    
    When a customer is told that they will need to run their files through
    the "lpspr" utility with various options and pipe them to the print 
    queue. They answer  "WHAT !!". "NO, I just want to setup a print queue
    that will automatically do it for me!" or "Our user community just
    wants to print their reports in landscape and to use a reduced CPI"
    
    Ideas? Any thoughts of porting DCPS to Digital UNIX, other unix platforms 
    and NT? Or just a bullet proof report print utility, that a customer can 
    configure to print landscape/portrait, 80-200 characters per line, and
    xx lines per page, etc.
    
    Renis