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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: LocalTalk Printer and NeXT
Keywords: LocalTalk AppleTalk Printer
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Date: 12 Feb 91 02:00:22 GMT
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In article <1991Feb10.093245.27734@news.arc.nasa.gov> ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) writes:
>I have a small business with a handful of Macs and a LaserWriter II NTX.
>Thanks to the great posts here, I am now clear on buying a NeXT. I do want
>to be able to print to the LaserWriter, though.
>
[...]
>
>If there is just no way to network the computers to this printer, I'll
>buy a NeXT printer, but reluctantly.

There are two things you can do: 
either wait until sometime this year NeXT distributes the free
AppleTalk client/server software and the Novell client software.
Then everything you need is an ethernet adapter for one of your Macs.

The other thing you can do is to get the GatorBox (look for it in the
product catalog), then you can do this stuff right now, but at a price
of 2795$.

In the long run you are best off getting the NeXT Laser printer. It
upgrades continously to the newest version of PostScript (each time
you get a new OS version), you have a higher print resolution
(400dpi).

So it might be the cheapest solution to get the NeXT laser now and as
soon as you have the AppleTalk software, sell your NTX.

Ronald 


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