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From: capslock@wet.UUCP (Allen Crider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: IP over Ethernet to printers
Summary: Beware Linotype also
Keywords: ethernet postscript printers
Message-ID: <1316@wet.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 01:43:16 GMT
References: <521@al.ele.tue.nl>
Reply-To: capslock@wet.UUCP (Allen Crider)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <521@al.ele.tue.nl> jos@es.ele.tue.nl writes:
>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.
>
 The ethernet option for Linotype's interpreters also has a 'problem'. They
merely feed the data from ethernet to the RIPs parallel port. I would only
consider buying this option for the convenience--not the speed.