Carl McNamee <[log in to unmask]> on 09/27/1999 wrote:

>  Is it possible to have one MPE spooler that services mutiple printers?
>  For instance:  I want to spread the load of one of our laser printers
>  over two.  All the print jobs would go to device LP06 which would then
>  feed the spool files to two printers.

>  If the answer to the above is yes then how do you setup sysgen and
>  npconfig (these are networked printers)?

Carl,

I think that you just need to use SYSGEN or IOCONFIG to add a device class
"LP06" (using your example) to each of the printers that you want to share
printing duties.  As long as your output is directed to LP06 the first available
printer will start printing that output.  No changes are needed in the NPCONFIG
file.

HTH,

John Hornberger
Sr. Systems Programmer
SPX Corporation
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