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From: jos@ele.tue.nl (Jos van Eijndhoven)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: IP over Ethernet to printers
Keywords: ethernet postscript printers
Message-ID: <521@al.ele.tue.nl>
Date: 10 Jul 90 11:49:46 GMT
Sender: jos@ele.tue.nl (Jos van Eijndhoven)
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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The QMS solution of hooking their printers on ethernet has been mentioned
here by several before.
However I recently looked into this option for our group,
and decided that they did NOT really solve our connection problem.

An important motivation for us to use direct ethernet connection
in stead of the normal serial line was the high possible datarate
to the printer, in particular for bitmap transmissions.

In this respect the QMS ethernet option just cheets you.
You will obtain some (closed) PC-box which hooks up to the
ethernet, and then connects with a normal (serial) line to the printer.
This will therefor not result in any speed improvements.

=== just to clarify some things ===

jos@es.ele.tue.nl