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From: curtiss@neptune.phys.ufl.edu (William Curtiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need printer to share between PC and Mac
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Date: 11 Feb 91 16:48:00 GMT
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I have a PC clone and my girlfriend has a Mac LC and we were both going to
buy printers when I thought, "Hey, instead of spending $X on each printer, lets
get a better printer for $2X and share it between the two machines (they are
only a few feet apart anyway)".  Well, there's my delima: there are several
ways of doing this:
	1)	I can get a regular printer and use a Grappler to hook it
		to the Mac, then use a A/B switch to change between the two
		machines.  
	2)	I can get an AppleTalk compatible printer, and an AppleTalk
		card for the PC.  Boy, a LAN at home!
	3)	I can get a Postscript printer and hook it to both machines,
		either with an A/B switch or using the multiple input ports of
		some of the laser printers.
Actually, option 3 appears to be out do to the high cost of PostScript laser
printers.  

Has anyone done either 1 or 2 and care to share their experiences/advice?

Please Email, since I get on the system infrequently.  Thanks.

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