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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can a NeXT laser printer be used with a Mac?
Summary: Probably not the answer you wanted to hear
Keywords: NeXT laser printer, Macintosh
Message-ID: <680@wet.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 01:07:08 GMT
References: <7037@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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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?

This is about as straightforward as it gets for serious DTP:

+-------+ +-------------+   +-------+ +---------+
| Apple |_| Mac II with |   | NeXT  |_| 400 dpi |
|Scanner| | NCSA Telnet |   | 16 Mb | |  laser  |
+-------+ +-------------+   +-------+ +---------+
                  ====ethernet====

Saves the cost of the Apple LaserWriter, assuming you already
have the other hardware.  Works great, looks awesome.

It you were looking to connect the NeXT Laser "directly" (without
the NeXT), you're SOL, since all the rasterization is done in the
cube, not the printer.  Now if someone would come up with the
software to allow me to plug an Apple (or Abaton) scanner
directly into the NeXT's SCSI port without the Mac II, I'd be
very interested--the savings would be comparable to THREE NeXT
Laser Printers...
					-=EPS=-