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From: ed@uunet!dtgcube (Edward Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing on the NeXT
Message-ID: <1989Nov11.144828.2117@uunet!dtgcube>
Date: 11 Nov 89 14:48:28 GMT
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Organization: The Deep Thought Group, L.P.
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In-Reply-To: jaz@abvax.UUCP's message of 10 Nov 89 15:10:44 GMT


> Since printing to the NeXT laser printer seems to be the biggest bottleneck,
> has anyone used the NeXT with a "smart" postscript printer ? 
[...]
> jaz@calvin.icd.ab.com

Yes.  We use a Qume CrystalPrint Publisher, a RISC-based, Postscript compatible
LCD shutter-based printer attached via a 19.2 kbaud serial connection to a Cube.
Besides the incredible inconvenience of not being able to download type 1 Adobe
fonts to it (yet!  I presume this will change soon), it works very well.

The font downloading problem is not an issue for *true* postscript printers.
The Qume was quite inexpensive (clone, you know, and a Developer's discount).

Email me if you need more information (e.g. how to set it all up); it's pretty
straight-forward since NeXT system software directly supports an Apple Laserwriter
across the serial port, and pretty much everybody is compatible with *that*.

BTW, printing is a heck of alot faster, in general, than when using the
NeXT printer.  But if you do alot of gray-scale work, the 400 dpi makes an
amazing difference.

Edward Jung (ed@dtg.com is usually best)


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