Sounds like a good strategy if you're in a single environment that you

can maintain that level of control.

Peter Cushing wrote:

> I got round the problem of various OS's printing various layouts to

> various printers by designing a print/email app to do all the printing

> for me. This is a workstation at my desk that just serves up the

> print jobs and emails where necessary. This has lots of advanges:

>

> - You set up the printers on this machine only, everyone picks from

> that list.

> - You can easily control all the printing from the screen next to you.

> - If you need extra software E.g. I use Virtual PDF printer. You only

> need 1 licence.

> - If you are doing office automation etc. you only need 1 machine

> with office installed. Machines without office installed or on an

> older version can still produce output.

> - If you change some of the code that does the printing, you can

> install it without kicking everyone out. Just stop your printing app

> and install the new version.

> - Jobs that take a long time to print or spool can seem to print

> instantly - the machine in the background does all the work.

> - If the machine that prints dies, you just install the printers and

> PDF driver on the new machine and you are up and running.

> - You can have multiple versions of your EXE and run 1 for a test job,

> then go back to the real EXE.

> etc

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