[VizslaKane]

I need some help. I have a large library of high-res images on my machine we use for catalog production. I have two other machines that I'm sharing with, that will help layout pages by placing the high-res images into their quark docs. When they print I would like their print jobs to spool to my machine. Since the high-res files are there it would eliminate the slow process of transferring the images to their local machines and then printing from their machines. I know there was software that could do this in OS9. Can anybody help me solve this problem (either with software, another process, or quark OPI)? The current way just brings printing to an unbearably slow process. Please help.

[ginoledesma]

What are the configurations of your computers? PCs? Macs? What operating systems are they running? Mac OS X? How would you like to print? Over the network (shared printer)?

[OreoCookie]

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by print spooling the way you talk about it.

Your machine (if it runs MacOS X 10.2 and later) can act as a print server that handles all print jobs via CUPS.

[tooki]

Print spooling means taking a print job (that is, the data created by an application when you press "Print") and saving it to a file. Then, this file is put in a queue, and when its turn comes up, sending the contents of the file to the printer.

I think you are using "print spooling" in a very nonstandard way to refer to some part of your prepress workflow.

Would you please elaborate?

tooki