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From: yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke, MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: AppleTalk'ed Hi-Vol Printers
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Date: 13 Oct 89 13:44:45 GMT
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In putting together a new lab, I'm looking for some better printing
solutions. We're currently using ImageWriters, which suck; they
need too much maintenance. The powers that be don't want to use
LaserWriters cuz of the costly toner cartridges. So.

Does anybody know of any hi-volume dot-matrix or other types of
printers that can be either AppleTalk'ed or Ethernet'ed into a
Mac lab? Such a printer a) would use fanfold paper, and b) would
not necessarily have to print Mac graphics, just draft ascii
text files. 

I'm currently looking at an Epson DFX-5000, a hi-vol parallel port'ed
dot matrix, but I sure can't figure out how I'd turn it into an
AppleTalk based printer...

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