Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:3863 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:9359 comp.periphs.printers:35 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!delta.eecs.nwu.edu!phil From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Anybody know of an enet/TCP printer? Message-ID: <1657@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 27 Nov 89 18:12:39 GMT References: <1989Nov7.210143.26795@t2ns1.gcs.co.nz> <1989Nov20.091640.22224@cpd.com> Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 27 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. YES! QMS/Imagen sells printers that sit DIRECTLY on the ethernet. There is *NO* ethernet/parallel box sitting inbetween! The one that I am familiar with is the Imagen 2308. It is the standard Canon LBP-CX engine. It comes with a separate processor box and, as an option, you can get a 3-com ethernet card to go in the box (this option also comes with the appropriate printer software to speak TCP and UDP). We had two of these when I was a Rice and they worked wonderfully well. The only downside is the price. They are, compared to most laser printers, very expensive (on the order of $10,000). They don't come with postscript, but you can get "UltraScript" as an option. The combination of ethernet, imPress (a compact printer language), and multiprocessors (the 2308 has 3 separate 68000 processors in it) make it a very fast laser printer. Unless you're printing a LARGE bitmap or alot of vectors in Tektronix mode, the printer itself is always the bottleneck---the page processing is always ahead of the printing. William LeFebvre Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com