[netatalk-admins] Netatalk and OPI


Subject: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and OPI
From: Lee Blevins (dgraph@tiac.net)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 19:36:45 EST


Is there any interest in seeing netatalk perfom OPI?

OPI (open pre-press interface) is a way of printing without the hi res
images and having a server insert them. The main benifit of this to free
the workstation from long printing tasks.

I realise it's not an issue for everyone. In our industry (pre-press)
it's a major consideration since images reach very large (60+ megs)
sizes.

Perhaps there should be another application that performs this.
Is it possible to make netatalk just recieve the postscript file from a
workstation and deposit it in a directory?

To perform OPI on separated postscript files would be quite a task. It
would be considerably easier to do it to a composite postscript file and
this would cover a very wide range of printing conditions.

Has this ever been tried? Could anyone be tempted to try it?



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