Print Server Problem

[rboklewski]

I think since appletalk is on the network already i should try and use it, since it works flawlessly on the NT print server. The problem is when i go and add a appletalk port it wants me to choose a device and it lists the printers that are on the old NT print server. The share names are exact as it is on the NT print server. If i try to add a appletalk port on the NT printer server i get the printers in the zone named exactly as those on the 2003 server. I hope you understand what im saying here. If im on the 2003 server i can see the NT installed printers in the Appletalk zone when i try to add a appletalk printer port and vice versa when im on the NT print server. Is this right? If im on the windows 2003 server and i capture the appletalk device that it wants me to choose will it mess up the NT print server?

[Natobasso]

Can you describe what's in the quark document? Any placed illustrator files with placed images inside them?

Export a pdf from quark and try to print that. If it works, then I'd assume you have something that isn't ripping correctly from quark. Make sure the pdf you rip is a pdf/x-1a doc (might need to create a .ps file first and then use Distiller to rip a pdf/x-1a file) because this file type won't be created if there's an error in it.

I don't think you can edit your NT server by choosing a printer through appletalk...I also think appletalk is going to be way too slow to rip large quark files.

[rboklewski]

FINALLY I FIGURED THIS OUT! here goes.....

I printed a config page of one of the printers, one that is setup for appletalk. I think you have to manually go in and configure it on the actual printer, but it looks like it is all done. You don't need a print server. When you look on the NT print server you will see a printer named ArtDept, which is one that my editors use a lot for printing. Now, when i looked closer i saw that the port it was using was Hp Laserjet 5SI1, I couldn't for the life of me figure out where the hell that port came from. Guess what, i printed the config page on that ArtDept printer and sure enough it said APPLETALK NAME: HP LASERJET 5SI1, which is the port it is using on the server. I went ahead and instead of installing the ArtDept printer, i installed the printer that said HP LASERJET 5SI1 and sure enough it printed right to the ArtDept printer. YESSS!! Now i just have to see if HP LASERJET 5SI1 is still there when i take down the NT print server, which in theory should work.

[rboklewski]

One problem, the new print server i will be using can't be accessed by a few of the windows users. I can see the print server, but it won't expand for me to select the printers. Must be a rights issue, any help would be much appreciated.