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Article #5505Limiting file size to LaserWriter
From: Richard Silverman
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 02:32
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 02:32
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>> I lost the original of this letter, but... Jason from Miami writes
>> that he would like to limit the size of files that can be printer to a
>> public LaserWriter+ controlled by an AppleShare print spooler.
Jason,
I don't know about the AppleShare spooler, but you could program
the LaserWriter to do it. With our LW, I have prepared a modified version
of LaserPrep to implement trailer pages for billing. We download this to
the printer when it's turned on, and the printer password is set non-zero.
This gives us our trailer pages, and also prevents people from using various
versions of the driver and constantly restarting the printer. You could
add code to such a scheme to do many things, including aborting a job after
some limit of pages has been exceeded. Unfortunately, I don't see any way
for the printer to know the size of the file as it comes in, so some paper
is wasted anyway.
Richard Silverman
arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Wesleyan University
bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan Middletown, CT
CIS: [72727,453] 06457
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