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From: neil@cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Anybody know of an enet/TCP printer?
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.091640.22224@cpd.com>
Date: 20 Nov 89 09:16:40 GMT
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In article <1989Nov7.210143.26795@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz> brian@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz writes:
>Has anybody ever come across a printer hanging directly off a thick
>enet transceiver? We have a situation here where such a printer would
>be invaluable. Obviously it would need appropriate intelligence to
>handle addresses, domains etc. with it's card.

First, let me warn you that I am biased towards the following
solution, since we just introduced it as a new product.  I assume that
since you can't put it on one of the serial ports already existing on
one of your machines that you need a Centronics parallel port for the
printer.  Our new box allows you to add a Centronics parallel port
(and some serial ports) onto the SCSI port of Sun's and other
machines, while using the standard tty drivers already in the machine,
thus allowing network printer access via entries in /etc/printcap files.

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