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From: kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Sharing LaserWriter between Suns and a Mac
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Date: 16 Dec 90 20:31:00 GMT
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  Just a caution: anything between a Mac and a LaserWriter other than pure
network (AppleTalk, EtherTalk, IPTalk, tunnelling, etc.) is likely to cause
problems with certain aspects of Mac printing, like printer-requested
downloaded fonts.  Macs sometimes want to have conversations with their
printers; having another processor in between functioning as other than a
pure network device may cause it to break.

  I don't know of _any_ Unix-, VMS-, or Mac-based implementation which
avoids this limitation.  It's beginning to look like the best place for a
printer is on an Apple/EtherTalk network.  Nearly anything can get at it
there, with no limitations on functionality.

/kenw

Ken Wallewein                                                     A L B E R T A
kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca                                             R E S E A R C H
(403)297-2660                                                     C O U N C I L