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From: cnolan@mee.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Dumb question about EtherTalk!
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.150851.1@mee.tcd.ie>
Date: 31 Jan 91 15:08:51 GMT
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Thanks to the many e-mail replies to my query about bridging AT-ET.   I 
received many suggestions for bridge products.  

My main problem was letting Macs on the ethernet talk to a laser-writer.  As one
person pointed out the best solution would be for Apple to provide a E/net 
interface on the LW. 

All our Macs are/will be on ethernet thus a sophisticated bridge is not what we
really need as we only need to see the printer.  An idea that has been
suggested was to use a product like PacerPrint which allows the Macs to use a
LaserWriter connected to a VAX.  This also provides better print spooling and
more security.  As an added benefit the Vaxes now have a postscript printer
available .

Has anybody any thoughts on this solution, or is anybody using PacerPrint?


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