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From: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Anybody know of an enet/TCP printer?
Message-ID: <2302@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 13 Nov 89 20:28:05 GMT
References: <1989Nov7.210143.26795@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz> <13207@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <13207@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>uhm .. (I'm famous for that "uhm") .. why wouldn't it work to hang
>the printer off a terminal server?  Or do you not have any terminal 
>servers?

One reason could be the lack of speed - most printers with RS232 interfaces
only manage 9600 BPS, some 19200 BPS. One nice product I've seen is by an
english company called Software Products. They take a Canon chassi and connect
a parallell cable to a VME card for SUNs they developed. This makes the printer
work as fast as it can, but I dont know what youre supposed to send to the 
card. I suppose it's a bitmap, and possibly only their own DTP program work
with it.

Per
-- 
Per Andersson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
perand@admin.kth.se, @tds.kth.se, @nada.kth.se 
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