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From: awalker@POLYSLO.CALPOLY.EDU (Alan K Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Sun386i -> Laserwriter w/o Transcript?
Keywords: LaserWriterIIntx, Sun386i, Transcript
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Date: 25 Jul 89 16:29:02 GMT
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Reply-To: awalker@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alan K Walker)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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Hi. I have a Sun386i and a LaserWriterIIntx, and am wondering if
it's possible to attach the two so I can send postscript files,
using lpr, to the LaserWriter, without waiting for the Transcript
software package? We've ordered Transcript, but I'm at a University,
and that takes almost as long as when I was working for the
government :-)

Details: Sun386i/150, running SunOS 4.0.1. Apple LaserWriterIIntx.
The lp daemon is running, I've changed the printcap, ypprintcap and
ext_ports files, as required. I've made sure the parity, etc,
are the same. I know everything is hooked up right, because I can
print a postscript file by catting it to the serial port. But we
need the lpr facilities.

I called Sun, and they didn't seem entirely convinced that their
missing $1800 piece of software was the problem. Am I missing
something, or is it impossible without Transcript to interface
these two?

(Oh yeah, I also borrowed a Mac and told the printer that its name
is 'lp'. Seems that is what lpr wants. What bugs me is that Apple
sells these printers for use on other vendors' machines, and 
the only way to name them (according to Apple) is with a Macintosh!
Apple told me it should work without Transcript, maybe, but couldn't
tell me why it won't.)

Thanks much!
Al.