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From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Does the NeXT printer have to be on all the time?
Message-ID: <15618@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:20:18 GMT
References: <1548@camex.COM>
Reply-To: dayglow@csli.stanford.edu (Eric T. Ly)
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In article <1548@camex.COM> geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) writes:
>I think with the old cube, when the cube was on, the printer was on
>too.  Is this true of the new systems?  (I had a friend 4 years ago
>who kept his laser printer on all the time, and his electric bill went
>up almost $100 per month.)

As far as I know, you can run PrinterTester (it's in the NextAdmin
directory, I believe) and turn off the printer electronically on the
old cube.  This should apply to the new machines too.


						Eric Ly