OT: skinflinter printing

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> Mailing an invoice or other document consumes postage stamps.
> Faxing also costs a few pennies.
>
> For those of my correspondents who are 'net-connected, I eschew such
> picayune disbursements of pennies: using uucp over tcp/ip, I print the
> output on a printer near the desk of the person who should receive it.
> ...

Your approach will work if you have control over, and knowledge of, the
entire network. In other situations, it has shortcomings. What if you need
to print fancy, but you don't know what kind of printer they have?

Let me suggest another approach, which is rapidly gaining popularity.
Generate a PDF, and then email it to the intended recipient. Note that
Print Wizard is able to generate PDFs. We're working on adding an
automatic email capability. This appeoach has these advantages:

1. You can use all kinds of printcodes, including those that generate form
overlays, barcodes, picture inclusions, orientation settings, paper size,
etc.

2. You don't care (or need to know) what kind of printer the user has.

3. The user can view the software before printing it.

4. The user can work on any of several OS platforms.

5. There is no need for static IPs.

6. It is not blocked by firewalls.

I could go on...

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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