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From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
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Subject: Re: New Personal LaserWriters announced
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Date: 13 Jul 90 13:55:20 GMT
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In article <1990Jul12.133343.300@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <44794@brunix.UUCP> mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale) writes:
>> I find the LaserJet, MacPrint,ATM set up works like a charm and if I want,
>>PostScript is just a mere $500 away.
>>> Admittedly, the slow communication (19.6 K) of this set up can be
>>> a bottleneck, slowing printing down to over 10 minutes a page
>>> sometimes.
>>
>> One advantage of having a Mac with a parallel port is that I can transfer
>>it over at 57.?k baud (or whatever that top setting is.) It transfers pages
>>very fast. (I case your wondering, its an Atari with Mac emulation.)
>The mac, or the Mac II anyway, has no problem transferring data that fast
>over the serial port... the bottleneck must be in the printer...

The Mac Plus can do this as well; GDT Softworks (who make the JetLink+
software that drives my DeskJet+) makes a box that turns the plus's serial
port data at 56kb (roughly... I forget the exact numbers) into parallel
for the DeskJet+'s parallel port.  This can be used for all the HP printers,
I believe.

	--chris sterritt

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=                Chris Sterritt - chris@adms-rad.unisys.com                =
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