Tech Talk: Providing Campus‐Wide Printing Service in a NetWare Environment Available to Purchase

At Lafayette College, our campus computer network connects forty‐five buildings via Token Ring to centralized Novell file servers, multiuser host systems, and optical disk databases. The network currently supports shared printing equipment to seventy groups of users including faculty and administrative departments, public access computing classrooms which are open 24 hours, special purpose course labs, and student residence halls. The approach I use, while not without drawbacks, provides our users with an easily accessible interface to printing resources as well as a manageable and supportable platform for our technical staff.