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From: bovet@hao.ucar.edu (Ray Bovet)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Sharing a laser printer between a PC clone and a Mac
Keywords: laser Mac PC multiplexor balck box
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Date: 7 Nov 90 22:02:26 GMT
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We are planning on providing both an IBm PC clone and a Mac in a public
area for users.  We would like to share a single laser printer between the
two.  The normal way to connect a laser printer to a Mac is to buy a
Postscript printer and connect it via Appletalk.  The normal way to connect
a laser printer to a clone is to buy an HP Laserjet and connect it via
the parallel interface.  I'd certainly be comfortable buying an HP with
HP's Postscript cartridge so that it could go either way (although you
have to turn it off and remove the cartridge in order to go back to HPCL).
But if we do that, how do we switch between Appletalk (which requires yet
another adapter for the HP) and the parallel port on the PC?  Does anyone
have any suggestions on how to do this cleanly?  Any suggestions for how
else to accomplish our overall goals more efficiently (please no flames about
IBM vs Apple, etc).

				Ray