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From: ne201ph@prism.gatech.EDU (Halvorson,Peter J)
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Subject: Re: Printer help
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Date: 6 Feb 91 22:56:03 GMT
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In article <6FEB91142917@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu> zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu writes:
>
>Hey, anyone out there????  I also would like to know if a dot-matrix
>(ie. EPSON,PROPRINTER) can be hooked up to a NeXT.
>

I haven't answered because I don't have a full answer.  There was a program
which would let an Apple Imagewriter ( or whatever they call their dot 
matrix printer) be hooked up to the serial port of a 1.0 NeXT.  The
software was based on the NeXT laser printer software ( or maybe just
provided similar function), and converted postscript to a raster image
which was dumped to the printer.  That was the only printer that I've 
heard of being supported this way.  There was also some clause in NeXT's
contract with Adobe which restricted them to low resolution printers
( except for the NeXTlaser).  The clause has been lifted for 2.0, the
software is writable, but no one has done a version supported a few
of the main dot matrix printers ( as far as I know).

You could also rig up a lpd filter which would route a plain ASCII file
out the serial port to a regular printer, but I haven't heard of anyone
doing this.


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