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From: jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: next printer port
Message-ID: <2062@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 19 Feb 91 06:11:32 GMT
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In article <1991Feb19.015232.4863@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields) writes:
>You are not likely to ever find an auxillary printer/serial port for the NeXT
>laser printer. It is not only a dumb printer but a MORONIC printer. The NeXT
>basically does a direct video dump to the printer. Buy video, I do not mean
>from the display. The printer has no smarts what-so-ever, so using it with
>any other purpose would be extremely difficult. It is kind of equivalent to
>those HP laserprinters you see on the market that demand the controller card
>be put in the PC to use it.

But the price sure is smart ...

:-) Joe
jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca


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