Quest and Xerox developed a product that takes care of this for you.  It
uses an HP-UX workstation that serves a print server.  Contact Carlos
Caballero at (714)720-1434.
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Charles Finley, Open-Ended Systems Corp
310-419-5903

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> From: Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: printing to a Xerox
> Date: Wednesday, December 18, 1996 4:47 PM
>
> We need to print to a Xerox series 4x35 from our HP 3K. What everyone
> else is used to is transferring the report (formatted with PCL code) to
> and then printing from a IBM plug-compatible mainframe through a product
> called DocuMerge which replaces the PCL control codes or meta codes
> (obviously not my area of expertise). I am hard pressed to think of one
> good reason not to try printing straight from the HP to the Xerox. I can
> think of two poor reasons. First, "we've never done it that way before".
> But then, this company never used 3Ks or the package I'm supporting
> before, so that's a moot point. Second, I have no idea how to take the
> output, insert the requisite codes, and send it to a Xerox console. Thus
> this posting. Any solutions should consider performance as well. Any
> ideas?