Our solution (before we migrated) was to use NBSPOOL which transferred
mpe's spoolfiles onto our print servers and, from there, it is "plain
sailing". 

In our brave new world (Mpux from Ordina hosted on hpux) we have a
similar solution - although mpux simply forwards its spoofiles to the
local unix spooler which (using JetDirect ? ) forwards its spoolfiles
onto the print servers 

I.e. in all cases, we let the print servers interact with the printers. 

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Jeff Kell
Sent: 14 October 2009 16:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Ricoh Copier from HP3000

Tom Hula wrote:
> In talking to the Ricoh vendor, I determined that the problem had to 
> do with restrictions that were set on printing color. On each 
> workstation, I had had to specify black and white printing as the 
> preference so that people could print to the copier...using color then

> required an authorization code if the user had one assigned.

Similar case here... we have an "outsourced" copy center that uses Ricoh
printers.  Their printers normally require an authorization code to
print anything.  The only way to print to it from the 3000 was to have
them disable the authorization check on the particular printer.  Once
that is done, it does accept a normal PCL-stream on tcp/9100 (with SNMP
disabled).

They (Ricoh) have drivers for windows, and there are unix "cups"
configurations for them including authorization codes.  But of course
there is no MPE variant, unless you can front-end one with some esoteric
"lpr" type options with one of the other network printing packages
(espul?).

Jeff

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