Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wang!tegra!phillips
From: phillips@tegra.COM (Steve Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 7 vits vs. 8 bits (again)
Message-ID: <1095@io.tegra.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 90 17:01:34 GMT
References: <2414@acorn.co.uk> <1990Jun23.184530.1326@cbnewsl.att.com> <184@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1363@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <1990Jun27.201333.10418@utzoo.uucp> <3439@adobe.UUCP> <268C0233.50F0@intercon.com>
Reply-To: phillips@io.UUCP (Steve Phillips)
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
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In article <268C0233.50F0@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:

>Personally, I always thought that Apple LocalTalk was an excellent choice.
     ...
>For a minimal-hardware printer like a LW, it's nice.  Now, what I think
>would be ideal for higher-end stuff like Linos or Varitypers would be
>to use TCP/IP over Ethernet.

Warning - product plug ahead...  :^)

Actually, the Varityper 5000 series already does support ethernet.
Our newest software release supports the BSD network printing
protocol, so you can print to PostScript devices using the lpr
command from your UNIX workstation.

- Steve

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Steve Phillips                                         Tegra-Varityper, Inc.
tegra!phillips@uunet.com                               Billerica, MA
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