Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!arc!arc!steve From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Sharing a laser printer between a PC clone and a Mac Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 17:32:35 GMT References: <9120@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: @advansoft.com Distribution: na Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: bovet@hao.ucar.edu's message of 7 Nov 90 22:02:26 GMT I am currently doing this very thing, using a LJIIP. I am NOT using a postscript cartridge: I use MacPrint on the Mac, which basically turns your LJ into a Quickdraw printer, and talks through the serial port at 19.2 Kbaud, which is slow but not impossible. If I ever need postscript I would probably get a postscript interpreter for the Mac, e.g. Jetscript or Freedom of Press. You need at least an extra megabyte of memory in the printer to get 300DPI graphics. MacPrint is what HP recommends, by the way. An additional advantage of this hack is that I simply plug the Mac into the LJ's serial port (the cable comes with the MacPrint software, $89 total), the PC into the parallel port (standard Centronics interface), and switch between them with the front panel. (QUESTION: Anyone out there know if there is a magic escape sequence I can send to switch ports?) There seems to be a sort of conspiracy between the manufacturers and the Mac magazine reviewers not to mention this option; this results in the LJIIP getting comments like "nice print quality, but very expensive because of all the adapters you need." I paid $1200 total. -- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ ADVANsoft Research Corp \ REAL hackers use an AXE! \ \ steve@advansoft.COM \ 4301 Great America Pkwy \ #include \ \ arc!steve@apple.COM \ Santa Clara, CA 95954 \ 408-727-3357 \ \__ steve@arc.UUCP _________________________________________________________