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From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can a NeXT laser printer be used with a Mac?
Keywords: NeXT laser printer, Macintosh
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Date: 14 Oct 89 22:02:11 GMT
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In article <7037@cs.utexas.edu> knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) writes:
>Is there a straightforward way to connect a NeXT laser printer to a
>Mac? The NeXT printer has a higher resolution than Apple's and is less
>expensive than the NT. If possible, has anyone actually done this?

Not unless you have a NeXT computer to go with it.  The NeXT laser printer
basically contains only the machinery to generate laser printouts.  It does
not have a PostScript interpreter or other comparable intelligence to draw
pages.  All of the processing goes on inside the NeXT computer, which then
bit-blasts the entire page to the printer for hard-copying.

If you have a NeXT, though, it is possible to send the Mac's PostScript
output to the cube for processing and subsequent print out on the laser
printer.

						Eric Ly
						CSLI, Stanford University