Hello colleagues,

This question is directed towards owners of the Fuji Pictrography
printers, with apologies if it bores the other folk.

Historically, we have used a Codonics NP-1600 dye sublimation printer,
whose network interface and accounting software is beautiful and robust.
At this juncture I would love to have the improved images from the Fuji
Pictrography, but I find it hard to resist the attraction of offering
all users access to the printer from their own desktop. This does not
seem to be a simple task with the Fuji.

Let me describe my problem in providing network access to a Pictrography
3000. The general solution for network printing is to have RIPS software
that sits on the [Windows 95/98 or NT] host computer driving the printer
and intercepts files to be printed. However, we need to know (1) who
sent the files to be printed and (2) what prints they made (how many
full size or half size). We need this accounting info for billing.
Unfortunately, the Raster Plus95 RIPS software will give you the time it
took to print a file (and the file's name), but that is all. Is the
Techpool RIPS any better? Is there another solution/software out there
to gather this info (remembering that the PC host computer may have to
talk to a Mac or other sort of renegade computer that doesn't understand
Microsoft)?

Thanks one and all.
Chip Montrose

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