Hi Sean, PowerPrint has its own drivers for HP printers and so on. What's occur is that when you have Back ground printing on, PowerPrint prints to Spool Master folder and wait for SpoolMaster to pick it up and print. And if you do an Alias of Spool Master folder on the server and copy it to the clients, the print jobs spools over the network and SpoolMaster on the server print it out. You must have the same drivers installed on both computers. Hans Sean -G3- wrote: > >Hi Sean, > >With PowerPrint you can use the selected printer in the server with > >background > >printing on. Make an alias of the Spool Master folder in the server and copy > >it to the clients and replace there Spool Master folder with the alias > >(delete > >the name alias). Of course yoy must have installed printer driver on the > >client with background printing on. Now you can print through the printer > >driver on the server. > >Hope this help > > > >Hans > > I'll have to try this out. I thought PowerPrint had its own drivers for > certain HP printers, Epson ESC/P2, Epson FX, Epson LQ, and Epson Stylus > Color, among others. I did not know PowerPrint would send files from the > "Spool Master Folder" to whatever printer is selected in the chooser. > > >The individual printers had individual folders on the server, and had a > >print utility running on them which checked the folder every minute or > >so. If there was a file present it printed it on its printer. > > > >I did all this because I couldn't take control of the chooser, or reset > >it externally. > > This is almost exactly what I want to do. Except that I am not writing a > single program to print to a shared printer. I want to let all programs > (from Appleworks to Photoshop 5.5) print to the network printer. So I > need to do the same thing as you did, except I do need to "take control > of the chooser" on the client machines. > > >I used old Classics as the print slaves and they worked fine. > > > >Regards > > > >Ian > > Sean > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ TT Tronic Data AB, Box 4044, 18204 Enebyberg Sweden Tel:+46 8 7920795 Fax: +46 8 7920761 e-mail:hans@..., http://www.tttronic.se