Peer to peer/ shared plotter

We share a plotter attached to an old workstation - basically acting as our
plot server even though it's just a win98se box with print sharing enabled.
Works fine.

On my new XP workstation, I setup my PC to share the plotter. In my XP
[LOCAL] printer properties, it allows me to change the driver for the remote
plotter.

Is this a good idea, something to be left alone, effective in the least? OR
Does the plot server need to be the box that gets the new HP driver?

TIA

 

What you describe is our network. Win98 server with HP600 and two
workstations, XP Pro and AutoCAD 2004.

All we did was let each work station install the drivers that it wanted and
away we went.

No problems. Even less if the shared plotter name is the same for all work
stations.

Dave Alexander

 

[I bet you'll try to say your office has glare issues too, right?]

Yeah, I just poked around a bit on the XP workstation - and the printer
properties offers to let me change the driver for the printer on another PC.
Seems like the PC attached to the plotter would "own" the driver - but the
option is there and I wonder if its best to just leave it alone...

I agree that naming conventions are important - helps a great deal w/ shared
page setups

 

The drivers for Win98 and XP are different, but you know that.

Now if you want to talk about glare, we are in an old ware house facing
North with the wall being mostly a 12 foot wide by 14 foot high overhead
door which is all window panels.Up on the roof behind us is a 6 foot by 6
foot skylight. Directly behind us is the boss's office with a nice big 8
foot by 8 foot window.
Spring and fall, we have snow on the ground and clear skys. The sun
reflecting off the snow shines in the front and reflects off the boss's big
window. To compond things the sun also shines throught the skylight directly
on all the work stations in sequence as it swings around. Then, the
landloard put mirror around the base of the skylight so than not only would
we get direct sunlight in the morning but also reflected sunlight later in
the day.

Let here it for natural light.

Dave Alexander

 

good grief - that's harsh. Do you use LCD screens or what?

I only get bad glare in the morning (east exposure) in a former 1st grade
classroom..

 

Its only twice a year for a coulple of weeks so we set up beach umbrellas
for shade and put little paper umbrellas in our coffee cups. And they hung
some black cloth under the skylight for shade.

Dave Alexander