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Design and Implementation of a Failsafe Print System.

Pultar, 1999

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15274512814353663943
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Pultar G
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LISA

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This paper describes a printing system designed for an environment with several hundred printers, such that there is no single point of failure, and the print service continues to be available to new print jobs, even if any part of the print system fails. The paper also …
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