Hello everyone,

We at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, are looking at ways in which we can re-direct print jobs from our Central Computer Centre's (CCC) high-volume printers to local departmental printers (most have HP Laserjets).

Currently many of the college's departments are having to physically walk some distances to the CCC, to collect their print outs. We are trying to find ways to bascially put the printing onus back onto their own local printers.

The print jobs range from simple plain paper reports, right through to complex COBOL student enrolment forms, where specialised stationary is required (ie: double sided, 3 part forms, labels, etc).

At this stage, we are looking for other parties, in this forum, that may have had similar problems in the past, especially on how to direct the spool files from the HP3000 to a local PC and automatically initiating local printers to them. Also, how did you handle the pre-printed stationary.

Is there a HP3000 software package that can allow users, from their telnet application (Reflections 1), look at their spool files, and manage them to be download into their servers? Better still, would be a facility to allow a selection of spool files and have them batched into their PC for future downloading (a print-preview feature perhaps).

Any comments, advice, suggestions, anything would be greatly appreciated.

Please do not hesitate to email me personally should you need further information.

Thank you in advance...

Fernando Olmos

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